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Minister Andrew Langa

Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
The Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Andrew Langa yesterday threatened to dissolve the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) board led by prominent Bulawayo lawyer Joseph James.
Minister Langa seemed to have been incensed but what he viewed as snubbing of an important meeting held at Zifa Village by SRC board members. Only one board member, Jessey Nyakatsawa, out of nine board members attended the football indaba.

“The Minister felt the SRC board was not taking sports issues in general and football in particular seriously as shown by their snubbing of such an event. He said if he as a Minister could take time to attend such a meeting, he did not understand why the board could not do the same,” said a delegate who attended the meeting that lasted almost five hours.

The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Lazarus Dokora, chairperson of the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Sports, Arts and Culture Temba Mliswa, Zifa president Cuthbert Dube, his deputy Omega Sibanda, Zimbabwe Women Football boss Mirriam Sibanda and other football personalities also attended the meeting.

Minister Langa blasted the country’s supreme sports body for their laxity in running sports and tasked them to come up with a national strategic plan for 2014-18 meant to revive sports.

He said the Ministry was also putting together a national sports policy and will soon be visiting interested groups and individuals before the final document is presented.

In his address Zifa president Dube absolved his board for the Warriors’ failure arguing that as Zifa they did everything that was needed for the nation to do well.
He said he even sacrificed his own personal resources for the sake of the Warriors.