By Farai D Hove| Before going on maternity leave, Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry had dissolved the previous Sports And Recreation Board due to concerns that it was interfering with her functions.

She managed to run the ministry well without a bloated payroll.

While she is away on leave, the Emmerson Mnangagwa administration has moved to oppose her by appointing another board, slapping her in the face. The board is headed by none other than Mnangagwa’s son in law, Gerald Mlotshwa, something MDC President Nelson Chamisa had last year warned that Mnangagwa just wants to trouble kamdidi kedu kanodida aka- this our great swimmer.

Below is a bill of evidence showing Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son in law’s new powers.

He was appointed Board Chairman and will enjoy these powers for the next 5 years.

The below extraction which is from the official Second Schedule of the Sports And Recreation Commissions Act, as ZimEye reveals, shows that Mlotshwa has in several ways taken over Kirsty Coventry’s job. FULL TEXT – His exclusive powers are:

1. To acquire premises necessary or convenient for the exercise of its functions and for that purpose to buy,
2. To take in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire immovable property and interests therein and rights thereover
   and concessions, grants, powers and privileges thereof.
3. To buy, take in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire movable property necessary or convenient for the exercise of its functions.
4. To make contracts and to enter into suretyships or give guarantees in connection with the exercise of its functions and to modify or rescind such contracts or rescind such suretyships or guarantees.
5. To employ, upon such terms and conditions as the Board may think fit, such persons as may be necessary for conducting the affairs of the Commission and suspend or discharge any such persons.
6. To provide pecuniary benefits for its employees on their retirement, resignation, discharge or other termina-tion of service or in the event of their sickness or injury and for their dependants, and for that purpose to effect policies of insurance, establish pension or provident funds or make such other provision as may be necessary to secure for its employees and their dependants any or all of the pecuniary benefits to which the provisions of this paragraph relate.