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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
THE Highlanders membership will tomorrow hold their mid-year review meeting at the club house where a new organisational structure of the team as well as business model is expected to be put into motion.

There will be the usual reports from the chairman and treasurer but the main business of the day will be on the report by the Elkanah Dube led committee which was mandated by members in the last annual general meeting to come up with proposals on the new look Highlanders, which is in line with the Fifa club licensing requirements.

“As you’re aware at the last annual general meeting, members endorsed a resolution that the club embarks on a restructuring exercise. A committee was charged with tasks to come up with proposals and is expected to report on Sunday. It has taken the committee five months to deliberate on the task that it was tasked with and its now ready to deliver,” said Dube.

He said components to be touched include a possibly new organisational structure of the team and a new business model for Highlanders.

“Members will discuss and air their views and make their resolutions on the tasks to be implemented as well as timelines and parties to execute the actions. Most of the action needed will probably be initiated by a constitutional review process,” said Dube who is also a board member of the club and former executive secretary and vice chairman.

With past mid- year meetings usually attracting a small number of members, Dube appealed to members to come in their numbers, buttressing that tomorrow’s meeting was a turning point for the 90-year-old club, presently enjoying a rich vein of form in the league.

“My appeal to members is that this is a critical meeting, it’s a watershed meeting because it will mark the turning point in terms of how the team does its day to day business. We really appeal to all paid up members to come in large numbers so as to own up on this process,” said Dube.

The road map of the new order, Dube said, will be guided by that Highlanders has no elections in 2017 and was hopeful that from now and during 2017 a lot of progress will be made.

“This is so, so that come 2018 we will hold elections under a new dispensation,” he said.