Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
ZIFA will finally cease to exist today when councillors meet in the capital to endorse the dissolution of the debt-ridden association following a false and illegal move during an extraordinary general meeting held in the capital on June 4. Today’s extraordinary meeting has one item on the agenda which is the dissolution of Zifa. Three-quarters or more councillors must vote in favour of the motion to dissolve the association in terms of Article 77 of its constitution.
“Any decision relating to the dissolution of Zifa requires a majority of three-quarters of all of the members of Zifa which must be obtained at a Congress specially convened for the purpose. If Zifa is disbanded, its assets shall be transferred to the Sports and Recreation Commission.
“The commission shall hold these assets in trust as ‘bonus pater familiae’ until Zifa is re-established. The final Congress may, however, choose another recipient for the assets on the basis of a three quarters majority, reads Article 77, part (1) and (2) of the constitution.
“Everything is set for the meeting tomorrow (today). It has one agenda and that is the dissolution of Zifa, nothing else,” said the Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa who returned back home from France on Thursday.
Asked if the move to dissolve Zifa will not jeopardise the court process which is already in motion but has been met with hitches especially technical ones, the flamboyant Harare businessman said there was no longer any court process to talk about.
“If you remember clearly you will appreciate that the case was struck off the role and that means its no longer in the courts and we should not therefore worry ourselves with that,” he said.
If the dissolution motion passes, Zifa would have to appoint a trustee or the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to take charge of the association’s property until such a time that Zifa returns.
The association is swimming in huge debts but some of its debts have been heavily questioned with suspicions of inflating figures by some service providers working in cahoots with some unscrupulous employees.
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke recently spilled the beans on the $52,000 hotel bill incurred by Zifa during the Cosafa Senior Cup hosted and won by Zimbabwe in 2009 when he said the bill was fully paid by the government yet it still appears on the Zifa creditors’ list.