ON the day former Premier Soccer League chief executive Chris Sambo was laid to rest, the domestic football fraternity’s grief continued following the death of former Dynamos chairperson Philip Mugadza in Harare yesterday.

Mugadza died just a few hours before Sambo was buried at Greendale Cemetery.

The erstwhile Dynamos boss, who has been described as a peacemaker by fellow administrators, died at his house in Gunhill after complaining of hypertension.

He was about to be taken to West End Hospital when he passed away.

“Our brother died at home in Gunhill just when he was about to be taken to hospital,” Mugadza’s brother, Godfrey, told The Sunday Mail Sport yesterday.

Mugadza first arrived at Dynamos as a committee member in an enlarged nine-member executive appointed by then ZIFA chairperson Leo Mugabe at the turn of the millennium.
Rafiq Adam was the chairperson, while Simon Makaza was his deputy.

Other executive members included Godfrey Japajapa (treasurer), Raymond Majongwe (secretary), Seth Chigogora (organising secretary), as well as Ignatius Pamire, Victor Nyaumwe (late) and Dominic Kambeu, were the other committee members.
Mugadza, who was instrumental in bringing the late Zambian coach Keagan Mumba to Dynamos in 2003, then took over as chair before he was later replaced by Pamire.

Makaza, who also later chaired Dynamos in an on-and-off relationship with the Glamour Boys, described the late businessman and farmer as a “peacemaker and a Dynamos son through-and-through”.

“Our farms are just a stone’s throw away from each other, so we would always find time to share notes, especially on football, our beloved sport,” said Makaza.

“We were part of the same Dynamos executive back in the early 2000s and I have a lot of things that I learnt from Mugadza.

“We were part of that nine-member Dynamos executive that was appointed by then ZIFA president Leo Mugabe. We were many in that executive, but there was harmony- The Sunday Mail