Story by Peter Chivhima
YADAH Football Club owner, Walter Magaya’s urgent chamber application challenging his disqualification from the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidential election will be heard this Friday at the High Court in Harare.
Magaya filed an urgent application at the High Court, seeking the court to overturn the decision to disqualify him from contesting the ZIFA presidential elections.
The concerned parties met this Tuesday for case management in Justice Tawanda Chitapi’s chambers where they agreed for the matter to be heard on Friday.
Besides the High Court case, Magaya has also lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Other aspiring candidates who have been disqualified, including former Manchester and Warriors forward Benjamin Mwaruwari as well as former ZIFA vice president Gift Banda, have also appealed to CAS.
The ZIFA presidential race has since been narrowed down to six businessmen Nqobile Magwizi, former CAPS United owner Twine Phiri, United Kingdom-based football administrator Marshall Gore, former ZIFA board member Philemon Machana, Northern region football league chairperson Martin Kweza and former Dynamos forward Makwinje Phiri.
Meanwhile, former legislator, Temba Mliswa also filed an urgent application at the Bulawayo High Court challenging his disqualification from the ZIFA presidential election.
Mliswa’s legal counsel, Advocate Musindo Hungwe said they are seeking to stop the electoral process since the ZIFA congress was constituted by delegates who had no mandate after the expiry of their term of office.
The matter is set to be heard this afternoon.
