Staff Reporter
The ZIFA dissolution saga appears far from over following yet another challenge this time from the former employees of the association.
The former employees have lodged an urgent application with the High Court blocking the dissolution of the association claiming that the association was unconstitutionally dissolved and demanding huge amounts owed to them.
The employees are the second set of people to appeal to the courts against the dissolution of the association in as many days.
Two days ago a group of ZIFA stakeholders and creditors also filed a High Court application challenging the dissolution of the association which still owes them huge amounts of money.
Included in the group were hotels, car hire companies and security firms that were not paid for providing services to the national football governing body.
Philip Chiyangwa the former ZIFA boss moved his executive to dissolve ZIFA and establish a new football governing body called National Football Association of Zimbabwe (NFAZ). The coming of NFAZ was specifically to clear the national football body from debts of the former association which owes huge amounts of money to several creditors.
The Sports and Recreation Commission and FIFA have not sanctioned the formation of the new association and dissolution of ZIFA citing several constitutional challenges in the process.
Chiyangwa has meanwhile remained adamant that ZIFA is no more and NFAZ owes nothing to any of ZIFA’s previous creditors.
Addressing the Parliamentary Committee on Sports yesterday, Chiyangwa remained adamant that there is no going back to ZIFA and it’s creditors.