BULAWAYO City FC’s disciplinary committee will meet next Wednesday to deliberate on the fate of their suspended coach Farai Mujokoro and kit manager Gift Mvala over match-fixing as well as head coach Philani Ncube and goalkeepers Reginald Buhali, who were spared by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) in the same case.
BY FORTUNE MBELE
After the allegations of match-fixing surrounding Bulawayo City’s away match against Border Strikers on August 3, the local authority side suspended the entire technical team of Ncube, his assistant Mujokoro, Buhali and Mvala.
Second assistant Try Ncube, who has been in charge on interim basis since then, was spared.
Last week, the PSL disciplinary committee handed Mujokoro and Mvala a five-year ban from all football-related activities after they were convicted of attempting to bribe Border Strikers’ goalkeeper Talent Sande with $300 to let in goals in a match that was played at Dulivhadzimu.
Bulawayo City appeared before the disciplinary committee, but were cleared of any wrongdoing.
However, Ncube and Buhali were not summoned.
The club’s disciplinary committee chairman Zenzo Moyo yesterday said following the PSL judgment, they were meeting to deliberate on the disciplinary cases involving the coaches. “We were waiting to get the verdict from the PSL. We are now going to deal with the issue internally because there was also police involvement in the case. All the coaches are still the club’s employees. The club disciplinary committee is meeting on Wednesday next week to deliberate on all the cases before it,” Moyo said.
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Moyo was in Harare yesterday to attend to another case in which three of their players – Bothwell Nyathi, Lewis Ncube and Dean Sibanda – have been charged by the PSL on allegations of age-cheating.
Bulawayo City registered the three players under the developmental quota.
In the match-fixing case, the PSL disciplinary committee ruled that: “It is lucidly clear that Farai Mujokoro and Gift Mvala acted in common purpose to try to match-fix the game, thereby contravening the provisions of Order 31.2.2 of the PSL rules and regulations. We, thus, find Farai Mujokoro and Gift Mvala guilty. Bulawayo City is found not guilty and acquitted. There is no evidence presented that links the club to the commission of the offence.”
