MIRROR REPORTER

MASVINGO – The Candidate, an assembly of ‘progressive football individuals’ is challenging ZIFA’s decision to hold its much anticipated elective Annual General Meeting (AGM) with regional affiliates whose term of office ended.
The group registered its displeasure in a letter dated August 21, 2024, addressed to ZIFA normalization committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa.
The letter is signed by The Candidate’s Chairperson Rtd Major Special Matarirano.
Efforts to get a comment by the time of going to Press were futile.
The letter argues that the regional bodies should be replaced by normalization committees before the AGM is held.
“The recent call and announcement of the intention for the ZIFA AGM have prompted our assembly to question the sincerity of the NC in changing the fortunes of football in Zimbabwe for the good. On 10 August 2024, the Zifa General Secretary, Yvonne Manwa published a letter to several defunct functionaries whose mandate ceased years ago, inviting them to attend a voting AGM in October 2024.
“It should be made known to the NC that the current regional bodies, who in the Manwa invitation letters, were to constitute 16 members from the 4 regions in the 60 purported ZIFA members, are out of their mandate and by now were supposed to have been normalized in the same way the Felton Kamambo led ZIFA board was replaced by the NC upon the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe football in 2022. This was supposed to be the issue, and it remains pertinent as a gap to be quickly filled before any AGM can be called for,” reads part of the letter.