Disqualified Mliswa claims there is an “elite clique intent on capturing football”

After being disqualified from contesting in the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidential elections, outspoken former Norton MP Temba Mliswa says there is an “actual conspiracy by an elite clique intent on capturing the whole football sector”.

Below is Mliswa’s full thread on X explaining his gripe with the process and the agenda behind;

“Many have missed the forest for the trees in the ZIFA saga. The minutiae of individual candidates such as myself, removed from contesting, is a mere addendum to the actual conspiracy by an elite clique intent on capturing the whole football sector.

“It’s a plot which is playing before national eyes but many have missed it. As I have previously stated, my ambition and goal isn’t just to enter the fray and iron out things but to stop the serious capture which many are overlooking.

“We have already seen the same with rugby where Mtongwiza is enjoying unparalleled profligacy and wanton control. The very letter by one, Kufa, alleging why I shouldn’t stand had internal documents, minutes from ZRU meetings, which are supposed to be confidential.

“It’s a brazen revelation of collusion between varied people working to undermine the emergence of independent& entrepid minds like myself in the ZIFA ecosystem. The same was tried with Cricket but ZC Chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani was strong enough to resist such criminal overtures.

“Now they have come to football. Under the guise of an SRC sanctioned vetting process proxies have been allowed through while some of us, deemed ungovernable and uncontrollable, have been swiftly supplanted by dolls with hidden puppeteers.

“In due time we shall be unmasking details& names. This goes beyond my candidature as I have said I could stand down if a better and clean candidate like Peter Ndlovu stood to contest. That statement was a clarion call for principled and independent voices to come to football.

“Many of those remaining are mere proxies strategically placed to advance the elitist objectives central of which will be the massive pilfering of resources. The vetting, judging by the names remaining, was a literal handpicking of convenient and pliable candidates.

“Therefore we should be careful not to amateurishly redact this scandal into a fiasco about Temba being removed but comprehend the full conspiracy which entails a long game to disembowel the football sector.

“Tentacles are already spreading as reflected by the MWOS& Scotland saga where money was the chief player. Dubious characters with questionable conduct in the running in the game have been kept all at the expense of the game. It’s a complete fiasco& funeral for national football.