ED Pays Surprise Visit To SOZ Team In Abu Dhabi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa paid a surprise visit to the Special Olympics Zimbabwe (Soz) team which is currently in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Mnangagwa was on a working visit to the Middle Eastern kingdom before cutting short his sojourn following devastating effects of Cyclone Idai which hit the country on Friday night.
Speaking to the Daily News from Arabia, Soz director, Viola Musariri said:
We had a beautiful start to the Special Olympics World Summer Games here in Abu Dhabi when the team received a surprise visit from His Excellency just to come and wish the team well.
The president visited us at Yas Links where the team was teeing off on their first day of competition.
It’s exciting moments here…and we are really excited, the team is really in high spirits.
We have eight team members participating in golf, three playing 18, two playing unified nine and other three playing skills.
… It was quite a big morale booster for the golf team whilst in Dubai, the athletics team started off on a very high note with Shepherd Patrick picking up a gold medal in the 800m race.
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