The plebiscite to elect the ZWSL and PSL executive is scheduled for July 25 and yet the blundering Zifa Exco, have organized a strategic workshop, starting tomorrow in Harare – whose strategic plan is being sought, The Page asks.
Interestingly, those invited include among others, Rose Mugadza, the former Normalization Committee member and the most divisive figure in women football, at the moment.
Whose interests will Mugadza serve? Wasn’t the disaster at NC enough?
Is this the depth of dearth of quality resources in women football? Oh My God! Where is Mirriam Sibanda?
Susan Chvizhe, the former ZWSL boss is also one of those invited – a doyen of past glory, now in splendid retirement.
But the story is on those not invited to this USD55k workshop for Zifa.
The Page noted with worry that clubs, which must ordinarily constitute the most figures aren’t part of the team. Just one club invited. Why?
And yet you have a Zifa president, currently enjoying the Club World Cup in the US, whose manifesto was strong on developing women football and restore their place of pride in the pyramid,not making the right calls.
He is delegating too much to people whose interests are not as well meaning as we have seen of Ken Ndebele(with refs) Thomas Marambanyika(with committees) and Alice Zeure(with matters constitutional).
Is this being reflected? Why have Zifa rushed to have a strategic workshop for women when they should be worrying about the right leadership to take them to the next level?
Whose strategy will it be? Who will implement it and why? How will they arrive at the strategy?
Who is raising the fundamentals with clubs, who are affected by the decisions, not involved?
What informed the strategy? What is it they want to achieve, excluding the clubs?
Shouldn’t women show a voice and stop or abort this exercise which is meant to leave the Zifa secretariat richer but clubs poorer?
Why should the elite clubs, who bear the brunt of carrying teams, playing in a sponsor-less unbranded league with zero prize money, be frog marched to endorse a strategy they didn’t moot or morph?
In all the madness associated with the FA, which is chequered and bookmarked, why should football allow this daylight robbery of women football?
Why not let elections happen and a new leadership ushered, who will then audit what is required and present it to clubs for feedback, before they can then decide what is required?
Perhaps clubs are now more worried about putting in office a leadership they hope will fix the problems already affecting the game, like the absence of structures.
The immediate challenge for any leadership at the moment is to have structures from Area zones, which is the only thing sustainable at the moment.
Blowing USD55k on useless cross country workshop in Harare, Gweru, Masvingo and Bulawayo is the worst kind of exhibition of poor leadership.
President Nqobile Magwizi can not sit around other FA leaders in the US comfortably, when he is presiding over ruins of women football in Zim.
Shouldn’t Magwizi be worrying about helping women elect a proper chairperson to lead the renaissance, as already he has seen that the three women, already in the Exco have been as useless as they have been chasing cameras and centri-metre inches of forlon press, as if it adds value to the game.
In short the three women in the Exco haven’t done much for women football, to elicit hope, leaving the challenge bigger for clubs to elect a stronger candidate to lead ZWSL and offer a louder voice in the Exco.
Vamwe vese varimo idzungu chete nemakuhwa, while the women’s game is dying slowly, and is as boring as watching paint dry.
Like would Fadzayi Mahere, say, “we need new leadership at ZWSL”, one that understands that development is structural and not artisanal. It is not social media either.
If I were clubs in women football, a boycott of this useless strategic workshop would be a loud message to Magwizi and Exco, to respect women and allow them their voice.
Zifa CEO, Yvonne Manwa, is out of touch with reality and to expect her to call caution, is expecting too much, akin to expecting Alice Zeure, of all people, to dress with ambidextrous decorum.
She just can’t pull it, even raw….hazvibude.
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