'Crazy' Chitomba buys all beer in Vic Falls to appease ancestors

VICTORIA FALLS - BUHERA legislator Joseph Chinotimba left Chinotimba residents ablaze with shock and joy when he bought all the opaque beer at the local beer garden and gave it to revellers to drink for free.

Chinotimba bought about 200 cases of opaque beer, which revellers drank until the early hours saying he wanted to appease his great grandfather after whom he claims the suburb is named, so accidents would not occur in Chinotimba.

The gesture comes two months after scores of patrons were seriously injured when a beer garden collapsed on them

The legislator also officiated at the official opening of Chinotimba Primary School, an institution to which he donated 1 000 litres of paint.

Chinotimba's benevolence, seemingly without bounds, saw him "adopt" 24 pupils at the school, pledging to pay their fees until they completed Grade 7.

The pupils are in different grades and are said to have had difficulties in paying fees.

Contacted for comment yesterday, Chinotimba who is in the resort town with other legislators for a parliamentary pre-budget conference, confirmed the reports.

"The people of Victoria Falls are very happy," he said.

"Everyone is talking about Chinotimba (himself), wherever you go here.