By A Correspondent| Rival ZIFA candidates sunk to new depths on Friday when they went on a social smear campaign that dragged the name and image international football body FIFA into the mess
With 15 days before the ZIFA elections, the contest has taken turned into a one-horse race with Magwizi going on a charm campaign offensive, meeting and interacting with the electorate and seeking their mandate to run ZIFA for the next four years.
Instead, rivals woke up with a plan to make fake claims that his candidature is now a subject of FIFA Ethics Committee investigations.
The opponents claimed that ZIFA’s Normalisation Committee corruptly accepted his candidature when in fact Magziwi secured the required nominations from the association’s affiliate members.
Magwizi has received the backing of PSL giants Dynamos and Highlanders, youth football and Area Zones among others and this flies in the face of claims that he is a political appointee.
The letters circulating regarding FIFA are outright fabrications, riddled with glaring errors and inconsistencies that expose them as nothing but a desperate attempt at misinformation.
A closer look at the letters show that there is no shred of authenticity or credibility in these documents.
The purported FIFA letter is dated 10 January 2014.
“Why would a letter from over a decade ago suddenly surface now? The date alone discredits its relevance or truthfulness’’.
The rivals claimed that the complainant was a pseudo investigative journalist to make it appear like FIFA letter was genuine, the correspondence is actually un-signed.
A legitimate letter from FIFA should be signed. The absence of a signature is a blatant indication that this is a fraudulent document.
Below are other pointers to the note on the fraudulent letter.
• Key stakeholders not copied. Neither ZIFA, the SRC, the Normalisation Committee, nor CAF are mentioned or copied in these supposed communications. FIFA operates within structured channels; their omission raises eyebrows
• No sitting dates. A legitimate communication regarding official matters would specify dates for meetings or proceedings. This document does not address that
• Addressing no one. The letter is ambiguously directed to no specific recipient, violating basic standards of professional correspondence
• Absurd referral to Mr. Martin Ngoga. The purported letter claims to refer the matter to the FIFA Ethics Committee chairperson, Mr. Martin Ngoga, yet he is actually a vice chairperson who inexplicably becomes the writer of the same letter.