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Former Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo, Gift Banda, appeared in a Bulawayo court, facing allegations of failing to fulfill his financial responsibilities towards his 13-year-old child, whom he fathered out of wedlock during a widely publicized love affair in 2009.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has rejected an appeal made by the new ZIFA board led by Acting President Gift Banda to help Zimbabwe’s ban by FIFA get lifted.
Former ZIFA President Philip Chiyangwa has pledged to use some of his influential contacts to assist the new ZIFA board led by the Acting President Gift Banda to get the international football ban imposed by FIFA owing to government interference lifted.
Acting Zifa president Gift Banda struck a conciliatory tone on Friday as he begins his murky reign at a most difficult period for Zimbabwe football. Banda faced an unforgiving media for the first time since the Sport and Recreation Commission confirmed his uncertain tenure last week following the Zifa Emergency General Meeting in April that restored the Bulawayo-based administrator in the Zifa echelons and elevated him to local football’s most powerful post.
Gift Banda won 66 percent of the vote in an overwhelming vote of confidence to land the second most influential role within the administrative structure of domestic football.
Almost three weeks after ruling in favour of Zifa in its condonation application for the appeal against the reinstatement of vice-president Gift Banda, the Appeals Committee is yet to set a date for the hearing amid fears that the delays are a deliberate ploy to keep the Bulawayo businessman and politician out of the game for as long as possible.
Ex-Warriors skipper Benjani Mwaruwari reckons it’s high time the ongoing impasse between Zifa and its vice-president Gift Banda stopped, as it is detrimental to local football.
It’s D-Day today for Zifa vice-president Gift Banda as the Zifa Appeals Committee is set to deliver its judgment on a condonation application by the national association.
ZIFA had by end of business yesterday not availed its bank statement to vice-president Gift Banda’s legal team ahead of today’s condonation application to the association’s Appeals Committee.
When Zifa president Felton Kamambo was ushered into office in December 2018, he promised to be a unifier, but 18 months later, the Southern Region is now greatly divided under his watch.