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Norton Legislator Temba Mliswa has urged Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) to consider electing a gender balanced board for the betterment of Zimbabwean Football.
Speaking during the report of the Portfolio Committee on Youths, Sports, Arts and Recreation on the state of football in administration in Zimbabwe, Mliswa highlighted that the portfolio committee must recommend ZIFA to elect a woman on their ZIFA Board.
“Look at the gender, there is no gender in ZIFA. The Vice Chairperson of ZIFA must be a woman, the portfolio committee must recommend that in the ZIFA Constitution, at any point in time, there must be gender parity; without gender parity we are not going anywhere – that is the reason why they do not want women close to ZIFA because women would be able to expose their stealing. Let them recommend for us to see women being part of ZIFA and let us see women’s football growing because we have that,” he said.
Mliswa added that ZIFA president must step down considering the allegations he is facing and let others occupy the position.
“Instead of us dealing with these criminals who want to keep stealing money, they must face their day in court. The current President is in court. Why does he still want to remain the ZIFA President? We must have best practice just like in this Parliament, if you are a Member of Parliament and you are implicated in any criminal activity that is before the courts, you do not have to wait for the courts to tell you to step down; your own integrity must get you to step down and allow due process to happen.
“We are missing men of integrity and dignity, especially in football. I wish soccer could be run by women in this country because most of the times, anything run by women is successful.
“I want to thank you Madam Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Like I said, this is my life of sport, I understand it better, I understand the structures and I have been involved in international sport in many ways and many countries, from Zambia and so forth. I am not at all going to be involved in this sport which is run by criminals. The Physical Education teachers from Cuba, where are they? Where are they to be running sport?
“The Physical Education teachers, Hon. Saruwaka went and did a Sports Degree. Where is he today? Why is he not part of the sporting development of this country? We chose to be politicians, which is not the career we want, our real careers, we were robbed by criminals. It is about time they were brought to book. Thank you,” said Norton Legislator.
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