Cops in Zimbabwe are hunting down whoever owns the cow that wandered onto a highway and ended up wiping out three top Highlanders FC officials plus a fan in one brutal crash. Chairman Kenneth Mhlope, vice-chair Sifiso Siziba, treasurer Nkani Khoza, all in their fifties to seventies, and 27-year-old supporter Mbalenhle Sibanda died when their car hit the animal and then slammed into a bus near Mbembesi on the Harare-Bulawayo Road.
They were heading home from Kariba after watching their squad drop a 1-0 match to ZPC Kariba the day before. Rough way to cap off a road trip.
ZRP's Commissioner Paul Nyathi says a young herder was apparently driving the cow's herd nearby, and now police want that person's identity so charges can follow, since Zimbabwean law actually holds livestock owners liable when their animals cause wrecks like this.
A lawyer named Easu Mandipa chimed in too, pointing out that owners are legally required to keep animals fenced and off public roads, and drivers who get hit can sue for repairs or medical bills if they can show the owner slacked on containment.
Apparently, there used to be protective fencing along nearby highway stretches, but locals and poachers stripped much of it over the years for snare-making, so the road's basically wide open to more of this happening again.
They were heading home from Kariba after watching their squad drop a 1-0 match to ZPC Kariba the day before. Rough way to cap off a road trip.
ZRP's Commissioner Paul Nyathi says a young herder was apparently driving the cow's herd nearby, and now police want that person's identity so charges can follow, since Zimbabwean law actually holds livestock owners liable when their animals cause wrecks like this.
A lawyer named Easu Mandipa chimed in too, pointing out that owners are legally required to keep animals fenced and off public roads, and drivers who get hit can sue for repairs or medical bills if they can show the owner slacked on containment.
Apparently, there used to be protective fencing along nearby highway stretches, but locals and poachers stripped much of it over the years for snare-making, so the road's basically wide open to more of this happening again.
