DeMbare allegedly paid Sangoma US$1k to cleanse club ahead of Bosso clash

Harare giants Dynamos FC have been making headlines for the wrong reasons.

Last week, they made wrong headlines for failing to pay players’ outstanding dues in signing on fees and salaries.

Consequently, the players boycotted training almost for the whole week.

This was at a time they were preparing for their clash against arch rivals Highlanders this past Sunday, and they went on to lose the match 2-0.

Then two days after the Sunday match, it has been revealed that the 20 time league title winners paid a traditional healer $1 000 to cleanse the club ahead of their fixture with Highlanders.

Ironically, the Glamour Boys are still owing their players their dues.

According to H-Metro: “Given the issues that were happening with the boys (the players), who were boycotting training, there was a feeling that such a payment was not the right thing to do for the club at the moment.

“However, the owners of the club said that this was a tradition at Dynamos and it was not going to be changed simply because the players were boycotting training,” sources told the state owned tabloid newspaper.

“They said these player boycotts have been happening as long as they can remember and they come and go and this cannot be used as an excuse to stop payments to the sangoma.

“It was like they were saying that paying the sangoma was more important, in terms of getting the result which we wanted from the game against Highlanders, than the training itself,” added the sources.

Furthermore: “The message was like as long as we satisfied the sangoma then we did not need to worry about the issues that had happened at training because the club would still be in a position to compete against Highlanders.

“Of course, it didn’t happen like that because we lost that game 2-0 and the performance of the boys showed that they had been affected by the issues which had happened on the training field.

“We don’t know what the sangoma said about the result because we never get to meet him given he is only known to a few people at the club.”

“The sangoma got his dues and, maybe, if you were going to ask him how did we end up losing he will say that without his intervention, we were going to lose maybe 5-0, I don’t know.

“But what we cannot hide is the fact that we are concentrating on things which don’t matter in this age and era when other clubs, of our magnitude, are investing in sports science.

“We are still stuck in the old ways of doing business instead of asking ourselves why we have not won the league in 10 years if the so-called powers of these sangomas really work.

“It’s a reflection of where we are today as a club and maybe we deserve the result that we got on Sunday.”

Dynamos are currently drowning in a financial crisis following the pulling out of Sakunda Holdings as their principal sponsor after the expiry of a three year sponsorship deal in December 2023.