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Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Sports Reporter
THEMBALETHU Southern Region women’s league leadership has expelled one of its teams, Street Set, allegedly for receiving a donation of soccer balls from Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, Raj Modi.

The philanthropic businessman, the only Zanu-PF candidate who won a seat in Bulawayo, donated the soccer balls to Lee Mangena’s Street Set that is based in Sizinda but the gesture has not gone down well with the Takundwa Chimundiya-led executive as they immediately expelled the club from the league for ‘political photography and interviews’.

Mangena is also accused of launching a verbal tirade on social media against the executive for sanctioning the team after it failed to fulfil a fixture against Ubuntu.

He was also accused of failing to collect the verdict of an appeal case in which they were suspended for two matches and fined $60 for failing to turn up for the game.

Mangena told our sister publication, Sunday News that he felt hard done by the decision and would be appealing to a higher office to seek his reinstatement.

He said it was unprocedural for an executive to be part of the disciplinary committee and mete out such sanctions.

“According to football laws there is supposed to be an independent judicial body that sits as a disciplinary committee and to have an executive doing that task is certainly wrong. I do not understand what political photography is because I was receiving a donation of balls from Bulawayo South Member of Parliament, Raj Modi and in these difficult times how could I have refused that donation?”

Sources within women football circles said the move was also motivated by personal wars because of the impending elections.