Former Zimbabwe Netball (Gems) Coach Has Died

2 years agoTue, 11 May 2021 08:45:09 GMT

Former Zimbabwe Netball (Gems) Coach Has Died

The former and longest-serving coach of the Zimbabwe national netball team, the Gems, Ledwin Dondo has died aged 74.

The decorated administrator and netball coach died at Westend Hospital in Harare.

She is fondly remembered for helping to set up structures for organised netball in the country, forming the Netball Super League in 1993 together with Eva Chirwa.

Meanwhile, former Gems captain, Perpetua Siyachitema, has paid tribute to the late netball coach describing her as a mother who was always there for the players. Siyachitema said:

_I started working with Mai Dondo in 2010 as my coach. Then, in 2017/2018, she was the team manager but still, to me, I didn’t see a manager or coach but a mother._
_I can say we have lost a mother, not a team manager, not a coach._
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_Whenever we were in camp, in the morning when we woke up to go for our morning jog, the first thing we would do was pray, when we were going to sleep, we would pray._
_She used to say pray for yourself and there was a duty roaster to make sure that every one of us would get the chance to pray, when we were in camp._
_She was a manager, of course, but she treated us like her own kids, even when we had problems, sometimes you would think that I am in trouble, but she would take it lightly and talk to you like her own child._