Jane Mlambo|Caps United president Farai Jere yesterday landed the Premier Soccer League (PSL) top post after he was elected chairman for the organisation, narrowly beating Triangle’s Lovemore Matikinye in an election conducted in Harare.

It was a closely-contested race where Jere claimed nine votes while Matikinye got seven after 16 clubs participated with Herentals and ZPC Kariba representatives failing to make it on time.

Jere will be deputised by Chicken Inn’s Lifa Ncube, who got the position uncontested.
The elections were conducted by a seven-member Zifa electoral committee led by Vusi Vuma.
Jere could not contain his joy just after the votes had been counted and even before Vuma had made the announcement; it was clear who had won.

The Harare businessman later expressed his delight at landing the post, at a Press conference after he addressed the PSL governors in a closed-door meeting.

“Naturally, I am happy, the governors went through what we were offering them and this is an endorsement to our manifesto,” he said.

“It was a good race and we had gone through a good campaign. We are coming into office at a time there is renewed hope for the economy with a new government coming in. But I think going forward now our mission is to see how we can bring back the people to the stadiums to watch the teams that they love. I hope ours will be a successful tenure.”

He said that they will immediately look into ways in which they can have their own buildings that will house the PSL offices other than the current situation where they are renting office buildings.

Jere added that he has already discussed with Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa about the need to acquire land to build their own office.
-Newsday