A bruising fight is in the offing as the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) presidential elections draw closer. NewsDay will provide daily updates, in video, audio, text and images, of the events around the key elections.
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KEY PROMISES & PLEDGES
- Restoring Zifa’s credibility
- Inclusion approach in decision-making
- Make Zifa a model of good ethics
- Increase transparency and accountability
- Improve Zifa governance:
- Ensure that Zifa’s development funds are spent on projects that benefit Regions as well as their grassroots, for both women and men
- Protect the integrity of the game
- Create a central code that guarantees the building of safe football stadia and other facilities
- Ensure Zifa’s funds are directly injected into local football
KEY PROMISES & PLEDGES
1. Audit Zifa accounts and be accountable…
2. Develop Zifa rights profile, all revenues to benefit football…
3. Develop sustainable income streams increasing asset base …
4. Build a new Zifa brand rebuilding confidence…
5. Commercialise transparent football management models …
6. Develop the game from grassroots …
7. Amend parts of Zifa constitution to be inclusive and allowing the public to have a greater say …
8. Develop sports tourism and marketability with a stronger more internationally recognised televised league…
9. Enable export of talented players abroad and development of Fifa coaching programmes …
0. Promote the spirit of working together uniting the nation with a successful national dream team to reality…
Phillip Chiyangwa
KEY PROMISES & PLEDGES
1. The restoration of constitutional democracy, accountability and transparency in the administration of the affairs of Zifa…
2. The expunging of the legacy debt through the creation of innovative national and international fund-raising initiatives.
3. Development of comprehensive soccer structures from the grassroots level and promotion of competitive corporate sponsorship…
4. Creation of more sports structures, especially football academies… 5. The creation of a special welfare fund for professional soccer players… 6. Creation of a guaranteed and continuous revenue stream for the association ….
7. Creation of a loan scheme for the benefit of national football team players…
8. Guaranteeing competitive professional contracts and fees for our national players and coaches…
9. Ensuring that football is accorded a special national healing status as a vehicle of cultural cohesion …
10. Campaigning for aggressive gender mainstreaming of professional football through the development and sponsorship of a professional women’s league …
11. Introduction of an innovative business advisory on our existing football and sport assets …
12. Ensuring that all our professional players have decent housing and transport befitting their special status in our society…
Leslie Gwindi
KEY PROMISES & PLEDGES
• To establish the integrity and credibility of the institution called Zifa through restoration of the sanctity of the constitution. • Accountability in football is relational and every model we create has checks and balances to ensure we reconcile all our transactions in an open and honesty sphere • Adherence to constitution: Guided by the Fifa statutes, respect of our own tenets…
• Legal compliance will as a median framework of conduct benchmark our daily operations.
• We need to play internationally consistently but that can only happen if we plan and invest in that venture by ensuring we finance the game well …. • To establish a clear provincial and regional football structure that leads to a conveyor belt into the Premiership and national teams • Re-establish a robust relationship with primary and tertiary schools across the country … • Zifa debt:Debt rescheduling Strategy
