Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will be out of action for two months after undergoing knee surgery, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.
The Serbian defender missed six months of last season with knee ligament damage before returning to the first team at the start of the current campaign.
“Nemanja Vidic has had a meniscus operation on his right knee and will be out for around eight weeks,” United said in a statement on their website (www.manutd.com).
“Sir Alex (Ferguson), as a precautionary measure, rested Vidic at the weekend, after he complained of tightness in his knee, however, further medical investigation revealed the underlying problem.
“The central defender was operated on this week and will be sidelined for about eight weeks.”
The loss of the 30-year-old Vidic is a further blow for Ferguson who was already without defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling through injury.
United have won four of the first five Premier League games of the season but have looked vulnerable defensively, with Rio Ferdinand and Jonny Evans now the only experienced centre backs who are fit.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and customary law “wife” Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo have agreed to settle their divorce outside the courts and public scrutiny.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday, Manasa Tsvangirai, the younger brother to the PM and the Tsvangirai family spokesperson confirmed he had started the traditional proceedings which they hope will culminate in an out-of-court settlement.
Manasa spoke for the first time on the marriage issue between PM and Locardia, agreeing that he was involved in the matter and paid money to the Karimatsenga family on behalf of Tsvangirai last November, which the magistrate court interpreted as lobola.
Manasa said when they went to the Karimatsengas’ Christon Bank home in November, everything was done above board in terms of paying damages.
“We wanted to legitimise everything and this is why we went to the Karimatsenga home last year. Taida kuchenura Locardia (we wanted to legitimise Locardia).
“The family cannot now claim that I am bothering them or Locardia because they know me from last year since I came to them to pay damage money,” said Manasa.
Manasa confirmed that he had visited Locardia’s auntie, a Mrs Mafaro at her home in Borrowdale last Thursday together with his uncle Innocent Zvaipa as emissaries of the PM to start negotiations.
“We went to Mai Mafaro’s home on Thursday so that we could talk. I understand that the two parties — the PM and Locardia want this matter to be settled out of court and have left the matter in the hands of their lawyers.
“As the Tsvangirai family, we welcome this move as it is good for everyone involved because we were seeing a third force behind all these matters, which was turning out to be political,” said Manasa.
He said when the matter started they did not anticipate “all this publicity”.
“We feel that it is better to resolve this matter outside the courts. When we went to Locardia’s home last week on Tuesday, we were looking for her, wanting to talk to her rather than intimidate or harass her. We were acting on the instructions of our lawyers, that we should try to negotiate with her,” he said.
Tsvangirai is being represented by Innocent Chagonda, and Thabani Mpofu, while Locardia is being represented by Jonathan and Everson Samukange. Tsvangirai and Locardia are locked up in a legal battle with the spurned “wife” claiming maintenance from the PM.
Flanked by her sister, Biata Nyamupinga, Locardia confirmed a peace initiative was underway, adding she was tired of fighting.
“I have always wanted peace with the PM and we want him to come and we can discuss about this matter. My family wants him to come and meet the rather having many people involved . Everyone one of us wants peace, this media war is not necessary,” said Locardia.
“Manasa and Zvaipa are looking for me in town, they came to my home Tuesday and on Thursday they visited my auntie in Borrowdale, they threw some objects into my property and hurled some abuse to people who were present and I do not know why they are doing it.
“They are misbehaving a lot. I am now living in fear of them and it is not the way to divorce a person, when you do that. I have always wanted peace with them from the beginning of this issue, until today,” said Locardia.
Locardia claims she was customarily married to Tsvangirai, and was the senior wife with Elizabeth Macheka being the second wife. She was also comfortable with being in a polygamous marriage. “I am still married to him and he is still my husband,” she said. Daily News
In a shocking revelation the former Algerian International Mohammed Shoaib has reported that his team struck a deal with Nigeria during Afcon 1984 in the Ivory Coast to eliminate Ghana.
Shoaib who was on the Algerian team revealed to the Algerian media that Nigeria need to draw to qualify and we helped them with that after the deal.
” We made a deal with Nigeria to end the game with a draw and they moved with us to the semifinal, while Ghana crashed out of the tournament although they won against Malawi” he said.
” Algerians were still depressed after the plot between Germany and Austria in the World Cup 1982 which ousted us so we did the same to Ghana two years” he added angrily .
Nigeria for the record lost the end game to Cameroon.
“The girl suspected foul play and checked her boyfriend’s phone. On checking, she discovered text messages indicating that he was cutting shows behind her back.
Instead of addressing the issue in a civilize manner, she decided to express her anger by almost killing the boyfriend in question. How? She purchased acid, and convinced him to engage in kinky sex(s&m) with her, resulting him being tied to the bed.
Because she wanted to interrogate him before pouring the acid, it was reported that she didn’t gag him. After bathing his private area with acid, his piercing screams brought neighbors running to his rescue. Unfortunately, the harm had been done”.
– culled from MDB
South African woman Nosipho Shilubane who took Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to court 12 days ago to stop his marriage to Elizabeth Macheka has now admitted she did so to teach him a lesson for the way he dumped her.
Although Shilubane’s application was dismissed by the courts, she says she has no regrets because of the way Tsvangirai treated her. Sounding bitter and nervous in a TV interview with eNews Channel Africa she claimed Tsvangirai dumped her via text.
“I received a message from an unknown number that said the relationship was terminated because of distances.” She claims she tried to call the number, but the Prime Minister was no longer taking her calls.
“I deserved for him to sit down with me and say Nosi this is what is happening. You know, that decency at least, I think he owed it to me. He is supposed to be an example to other people, to young kids.”
“At an age of 60 you dump women with SMS’s ?” she fumed in the interview. She claimed she was still smarting from her experience and felt ‘used and abused’ but she insists she wishes Tsvangirai well in his new marriage.
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