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DR CUTHBERT DUBE FOR ZIFA PRESIDENT DID YOU KNOW THAT · Football is the world`s most beautiful game. · Football is the most popular sport in the world. · Football is a vehicle for social, economic and political development. · Football is a cure to the hurt and grieving. · Football contributes 15% of the Gross domestic product. · Football can unlock the business value for Zimbabwe. · Football unites. · Football is the people`s passion. Contact Details Mobile: Wavell: +263 712 878 359 or +263 772 728 223 Tinashe: +263 773 450 370 email: [email protected] : [email protected]

Photos from Sylvia Dube Memorial Tournament, Gwanda 1 PERSONAL RESUME

Born Cuthbert Elkanah Dube, on the last day of the year 1953, in a Manyika family of five with only one girl. This gentleman is the outgoing Group Chief Execuve Officer of Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) and Premier Service Medical Investments (Pvt) limited (PSMI). He holds a Masters degree in Business Administraon and a Doctorate in Business Administraon.

PSMAS is the largest medical aid society in Africa, north of the Limpopo River with a register of over 802 000 principal members and dependants.

I dramacally turned around PSMAS in 1999 when the Society posted a net surplus of Z$81 million against a staggering Z$269 million net deficit the previous year. This was followed by an all-record net surplus Z$296 million at the end of December 2000.

To crown my achievements, I implemented my vision of health provision so well that it has earned my organizaon and myself a lot of respect from both his crics and admirers. My diversificaon strategy has brought new meaning and an increase in the value of medical aid and health services to the members of PSMAS and the country as a whole. Members are now enjoying guaranteed access to quality health care services as a result of this strategy. Some of the disciplines under the Premier Service Medical Investments porolio are dental, medical, physiotherapy, ambulances, hospitalizaon, pharmaceucal, pathology, optometry, imaging, just to menon a few. I sits on a number of Boards within both the private and the public sector.

2 Awards 1. Manager of the year award in 2002 from the Zimbabwe Instute of Management. 2. Second Runner-up to Manager of the Decade in 2003 from Zimbabwe Instute of Management. 3. Gold Medal Award for excellence in Business pracce conferred on him by a Geneva-based organisaon in 2004 which he personally received in Geneva, Switzerland. 4. 2006 Businessman of the Year Award conferred to him by the Naonal chamber of Commerce in Zimbabwe in 2006. 5. Internaonal Quality Summit Award (IQS). Gold category conferred to him by Business Iniave Direcons (BID) in New York, USA on 26 May 2008. 6. Internaonal Golden Award for Quality and Business Presge conferred to him in Berlin, Germany, on 30 March 2009. 7. Outstanding Businessman Personality Award conferred by Megafast, Zimbabwe 2012 8. Career and Leadership Legacy Builder Award conferred by The Leadership Instute (LASOF) 2013 9. Internaonal Star for Leadership in Quality Award- New York, May 2012 10. The New Era Award for Technology, Quality and Innovaon – Berlin, Germany 2012 11. The Golden Europe Award for Quality and Commercial Presge-Paris, France, July 2012 12. Diamond Summit Award-New York, 2012 13. Golden Award for Quality and Business Presge, Rome- Italy, June 2013

To cap it all, PSMAS won a Government Tender in Zambia in 2006 to provide medical aid services in that country against sff compeon from South Africa, Chinese and Zambian companies. I am definitely an inspiraon to both the PSMAS Group of companies and to many young and ambious Zimbabweans. A strategist in my own right, I look aer big budget. I am a workaholic and do not seem ready to give up this habit! I live on borrowed me all the me.

ZIFA Village: View from artificial turf

3 FOOTBALL BACKGROUND Football is my passion. Football is my life as I have spent this beer part of my life contribung to the game as a benefactor and or sponsor. And here is my football profile:

· Founded Buymore Social Football Club in 1989 · Founded Buymore FC in 1992 · Led Buymore FC into Premier League in 2002 · Was Chairman of the ZIFA Eastern Region from 2001 to 2006 · Was a Board Member Of the ZIFA Board from 2001 to 2006 · Was Chairman of the Zimbabwe 2010 Africa Cup of Naons Bid Commiee from 2005 to 2006 · Founder and Sponsor of the Sylvia Dube Memorial Tournaments which is in memory of my late wife who was an avid football follower and co sponsor of Buymore F.C PERSONAL VALUES I cherish the following values which have been my forte all my life

· Integrity ·Fairness · Honesty ·Equity in terms of opportunies · Democracy ·Compassion · Transparency ·Hard work · Fair play ·Professionalism ·Team work

I am a firm believer in working with and for the people and football thrives on selfless and commied contribuons of humble servants of football.

4 PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES Below is the sum total of the aributes which have always given me the strength to work for the people. · Good interpersonal skills- I can work with people from different backgrounds. · Analycal mind- I can have strong analycal and or crical skills which help me to operate astutely. · Humility –I believe that I should always humble myself to those whom I serve. · Delegaon- one can never walk alone and to that end division of labour and collecve responsibility are my styles of leadership. · Introspecon- an honest leader shall always look himself in the mirror if one has to acquit oneself efficiently. · Strategist- I am endowed with strategic management skills and football needs strategists.

ZIFA Village: Conference Cerntre

5 PREAMBLE Of all the years that I have humbly served Zimbabwean football in various capacies as highlighted earlier, the past four years have been the most challenging experience I have ever had. My first term in office as President of the Zimbabwe Football Associaon made me realise how much our football had become so polarized, how much the custodians of football, the ordinary and simple men and women who passionately follow this most beauful game have different ideas on how football should be run in our great country. I have learnt with humility and, because of my love for football, to listen to these voices because football has a way of bringing us together, of finding each other in the midst of all differences and different opinions. When all has been said and done, we are indeed on the same team, TEAM ZIMBABWE! TOGETHER EVERYONE ACHIEVES MORE!

The past four years have taught me that in union there is strength. I have learnt that as a team it is important to remember that “upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all”- so said Alexander the Great. I have drawn experience from members of my Board and have realized that all of us, at certain points in our lives, need to take advice and receive help from other people who share the same passion for football as I do.

The last four years have been a humbling experience as my Board and I went through roller coaster moments. From inhering a debt ridden organizaon, to tackling the Asiagate monster and so much in between but capping those four years with the Warriors success at CHAN., it indeed has been lessons for me throughout, lessons that I have learnt well and lessons I plan to build on as I seek re-elecon for the post of ZIFA President.

Being a seasoned football administrator, it doesn't take a rocket scienst to know that football is a team sport. It is the reality that movates me to build on the past four years and bring together every football stakeholder to the table and chart the way forward for our football. This includes the owners of the game, the millions of fans out there, the reason we actually go to the stadium, the players, the Government of Zimbabwe, the media, players union, women football, corporate world, and football administrators.

6 We need to work as a team because football is not about me, neither is it about you, football is about us, its about our children, our families, our people, and above all it is about our great country, which I know we all love dearly and our common dream is for every face of our football from the elite PSL, the women's football, Futsal, beach soccer, junior football development to succeed and become the pride of our naon, a feeling we all shared when the Warriors did us proud during the last edion of CHAN. The CHAN experience galvanized our people. For a moment there, Zimbabweans from all walks of life were united through football regardless of polical affiliaon, religion, colour, creed or gender. Though our bodies were here in Zimbabwe, our hearts and minds were with our gallant and brave warriors in South Africa. This is the power of football that I cannot over emphasise. It is this great spirit that I would like to revive and fight for as we set our focus on AFCON 2015, World Cup 2018, the Women's World Cup in Canada 2015 and various CAF and FIFA compeons in the next four years. To achieve the above what we need to do is learn to work together, to tolerate one another's needs to work in a system where my Board, the Secretariat, players, fans, our Government, the corporate world, is there not, for individual compeve profit or recognion, but for contribuon to the system as a whole on a win- win basis because in the words of Mother Theresa “None of us, including myself, can ever do great things, but we can do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful” in the world’s most beauful game.

May I reiterate that my term of office has arguably been the most turbulent in the past three decades, there were successes and failures on the part of the Board and I summarise them below: 1. FAILURES 1.1 Our Board failed to aract sponsors mainly because of “Asiagate” and the general bad name of ZIFA which has always been associated with financial mismanagement. The down-turn in our economy did not assist the situaon either. 1.2 During our term of office, the Naonal Teams did not qualify for the World Cup and African Cup of Naons. 1.3 We failed to fulfill some regional and connental matches because of lack of funding from the Government of Naonal Unity. 1.4 Throughout the enre life of the Government of Naonal Unity (GNU), our Board failed to persuade that Government to support soccer and our Naonal Teams. The then Ministry of Educaon, Sports Arts and Culture argued that they priorized educaon ahead of sport hence given the financial constraints facing Government, Sport was not a top priority. Understandably, maybe. 1.5 We failed to pay for the 2013 external audit fees and the external auditors are sll holding onto the Audited Financial Statements unl full payment is made. 1.6 Our Board failed to pay Naonal Teams Coaches and the same have taken ZIFA to court

7 1. SUCCESSES 2.1 My Board managed, for the first me in the history of our beloved country Zimbabwe, to bring the President of FIFA, Mr Joseph Sepp Blaer to Zimbabwe in 2011. 2.2 During Mr. Blaer's visit, we were granted an audience with our Head of State at the State House. Mr. Blaer was extremely pleased to meet His Excellency, Cde. R. G. Mugabe. It was literally a massive vote of confidence for Zimbabwe and the visit dispelled all the nonsensical lies that Zimbabwe was not a safe country. 2.3 Our Board unearthed the now famous “Asiagate Scandal” where there was the worst match fixing and illegal beng to have hit our football fraternity. The Perpetrators were the former Chief Execuve Officer, Administrators, Players, Officials, Board members and even journalists. The Board spent most of its me tackling this evil at the expense of football development. But it was very necessary to do so. 2.4 Following 2.3 above, the ZIFA Board had to appoint a commiee headed by a rered Judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Jusce Ahmed Ebrahim. The Commiee carried out extensive invesgaons into this scandal and several culprits were given sentences ranging from six months to life bans. We are now in the process of engaging the support of FIFA so that they can endorse world-wide bans against those already found guilty. Accordingly, we have been invited to Zurich, Switzerland, by FIFA on 24 March 2014 to conclude the bans, one way or the other and once and for all. 2.5 For the first me in the history of Zimbabwe, FIFA appointed a Zimbabwean (myself) to serve on a Standing Commiee of FIFA. Two days ago I received a leer from FIFA where I have been re-appointed. I am also a member of the Confederaons of African Football (CAF) Commiee on Youth Compeons, again the first from Zimbabwe. 2.6 My Board managed to revive FIFA Goal Projects which had been stopped by FIFA for many decades because of financial mismanagement by previous ZIFA Boards. We successfully re-engaged FIFA and the Goal Projects Funds are now coming and assisng Zimbabwe. The recent compleon of the ZIFA Village, Accommodaon Block, the Conference Center and the near compleon of the arficial turf are tesmony of the assistance ZIFA now gets from FIFA. 2.7 FIFA have just informed us that they will shortly avail us with funds to build a state of the art ZIFA Headquarters which will house Women’s Football the Premier Soccer League, Zimbabwe Football Trust and a Hotel. We have already idenfied land for this purpose towards the Harare Internaonal Airport. 2.8 Aer compleon of the ZIFA Headquarters FIFA will again assist us with funds to build ZIFA House in Bulawayo. 2.9 The recent CHAN Qualificaon was the biggest success in football performance during the past few decades. 2.10 We managed to fulfill most of our regional and connental assignments despite the fact that the Government of Naonal Unity (GNU) did not support ZIFA financially throughout its existence.

8 2.11 We managed to get financial assistance from the ZIFA President who bailed out the Naonal Associaon on numerous occasions. Without that assistance Zimbabwe would have been banned by CAF and FIFA from football acvies. He spent US$ 869 000.00 towards ZIFA from his own resources. 2.12 All our ZIFA Assembly Councilors and Provincial Execuves now have ZIFA uniforms in the form of blazers, trousers, shirts and es as an associaon identy. 2.13 We managed to revive Women Soccer which had literally “died” and today our Mighty Warriors are a pride to the naon in terms of performance. 2.14 We managed to revive Area Zones which are crical for Junior Football development. 2.15 Beach Soccer and FUTSAL (Five-A- Side) were re-acvated aer years of dormancy. They are now part of the ZIFA Assembly Councilors. 2.16 We managed to produce Audited Accounts for the first me in many years. I must, however, point out that the financial statements have all been qualified because of decades of financial mismanagement and poor financial systems and controls. 2.17 Honorary members were once more brought back into the football family and are now a regular feature in many football acvies. We constantly seek their guidance and advice as football elders. 2.18 We held regular Board and Commiee meengs to conduct the affairs of the Associaon. We also held workshops gladly funded by FIFA. Some of these workshops helped the Associaon to come up with a constuon which is aligned to the FIFA one. Our ZIFA Constuon has now been registered by the Sports and Recreaon Commission and now awaits endorsement by the world Soccer Body FIFA. 2.19 We managed to build harmonious bridges between ZIFA and Premier Soccer League (PSL). 2.20 Our Board managed to successfully lobby for the establishment of a separate and stand-alone Ministry solely dedicated to Sports. We are very happy that our prayers have been answered and that you are now our Honourable Minister responsible for that Ministry. We are behind you all the way.

ZIFA Village: Guest Accommodation Facility

9 MY 2010 MANIFESTO

in my 2010 Manifesto , I promised to devote all my energies toward the implementaon of a turnaround strategy for the associaon and below are crical achievements that my board and I succeeded to walk the talk

What I Promised What I Delivered

1. ZIFA Village

My team shall re-engage FIFA on the Goal Project whose a. The village now boasts of up market lodgings which can compleon shall be done by end of August 2010 and this house up to 32 people. b. A world class 200 seater Conference Centre was completed shall be possible if we appoint a reputable and competent in 2013. contractor. The Village upon its compleon, should house our c. A world class standard arficial stadium turf stadium is naonal teams, youth camps, training programmes and under construcon. general acvies of the associaon. d. A football museum or Hall of Fame will be opened before end of year. e. Two Technical Centres will be opened in the other regions to house our Regional acvies.

2. HEAD OFFICE

My Board will secure new premises away from 53 FIFA was so impressed with the way my board completed Livingstone Avenue, Harare, where a state-of-the-art the construcon of the ZIFA village that they agreed to House of ZIFA shall be built. The new premises should fund the construcon of the new state of the art ZIFA head exude a new look of the Associaon and should house quarters. These funds have now been secured and with all of the Associaon's porolios. the assistance of the ZIFA Trust, land to build this football house has also been secured.

3. CONSTITUTION

The ZIFA Constuon shall always be our `Bible` around a. Our statutes have since been given a facelift thanks to the Constitutional Reforms, between 2010 and which we shall go about our acvies. A strong Constuon 2013. Review Team shall always be in place to help drive the b. Areas needing improvement shall always be Constuonal Reform Process in a manner that does not attended to. bring football into disrepute as well as not serving individual c. We can now boast of order, stability and continuity. and cartels' selfish whims. Respect ZIFA Assembly, whose d. We registered our new Constitution with the Sport and Recreation Commission on 18th November 2013. members should be trained in sound football management. We are yet to adopt the draft Rules and Regulations. Football needs such a crical mass.

4. DATABASE

My Board will work on building an accurate and detailed a. We had to salvage as much database and data base on players, coaches, referees, administrators, information as possible owing to the evidence of medics, leagues, instuons of learning if at all we are to missing records. deploy our resources strategically. Our needs assessment b. We must thank FIFA for availing to ZIFA state-of- and servicing shall be dependent on the database which the-art data capture equipment. shall form part of our e-football strategy. c. E-football should be rolled out in full scale in 2014. d. Research work shall be undertaken using a strong database system.

10 5. DEVELOPMENT STRUCTURES

The development structures shall be revived, starng from area zone FIFA and CAF came to our rescue through their development level up to the premier league. The structures in queson shall be programmes for: resourced and we shall invest a lot in human capital development. School and terary leagues shall be resourced if our enre main a) Coaching stream football is to be vibrant. We shall also revive our schools of b) Refereeing c) Administraon excellence in the ten provinces, in conjuncon with the Ministry of d) Football Medicine Educaon, Sports, Art and Culture. The Board shall mobilize financial and human resources locally and beyond our borders to service ·Area Zones and districts are currently being re-organised. development iniaves. ·Talent idenficaon programmes sll remain poorly coordinated. ·In schools, football is yet to be intergrated into mainstream football.

6. GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT

Our game needs maximum involvement of government and a. I managed to lobby for the creaon of a separate Ministry of Sport. given my contacts at government level, my Board shall b. Government has been supporng football since 2010 but it must re-engage Government with a package for Government be appreciated that Government had its core business units which involvement and facilitaon. We shall renew government`s placed football at the end of the resource deployment rung. confidence in our game and this shall form part of our c. I will in my next term of office, urge Government to create a more turnaround strategic iniaves. conducive sponsorship environment for corporate bodies through tax incenves.

7. PLAYER WELFARE

Player welfare shall be the cornerstone of our administraon. a. Our players have been subjected to harsh employment condions The Players Union shall be resourced through mullateral owing to the generally distressed economic environment. partnerships. Player members shall be resourced through b. My next term of office shall see Club Owners and Players striking mullateral partnerships. Player members shall be our main a win-win kind of partnership. focus area so as to arrest the skills drain to South Africa and c. The Zimbabwe Football Trust shall bring on Board corporate other leagues. Insurance schemes shall be availed to our partners whose brief shall revolve around the Players Welfare players thus creang a safety net for them. Players will Porolio. forthwith not be dumped by clubs when they get injured while on duty.

8. COSAFA, CAF and FIFA Placements

Zimbabweans are renowned for having had disnguished ·We courted COSAFA, CAF and FIFA to help grow our game. service at various regional, connental and internaonal fora. ·I was a member of the 2013 FIFA Confederaons Cup Organising Commiee. We shall work towards having our brothers and sisters ·I sit in the CAF and FIFA Standing Commiees. appointed in COSAFA, CAF and FIFA Commiees, these ·I have been reappointed into the FIFA Standing Commiee. appointments will help leverage our local games as well as ·Some Board Members sit in the COSAFA and CAF Standing Commiees expose our people to internaonal football. Such ·I convinced FIFA and Interpol to host an Anglophone FIFA appointments shall help reposion the game in parcular Interpol Instructor's course in September 2013. and Zimbabwe in general. Such appointments will go a long ·I brought the 2011 COSAFA Women Championship to Zimbabwe in July 2011. way in helping Zimbabwe bid for CAF and FIFA tournaments ·I successfully invited FIFA President, Mr Joseph Blaer to and conferences. visit Zimbabwe in July 2011. ·The CAF President Mr Issa Hayatou is set to visit Zimbabwe before the end of this year. ·I am also courng COSAFA, CAF and FIFA to designate Zimbabwe as host to the three's underage compeons and conferences. ·I enjoy personal relaons with FIFA, CAF and COSAFA football hierarchy owing to my leadership style as well as interpersonal skills. ·I am working on courng sister Federaons to partner with Zimbabwe in bilateral areas of co-operaon ranging from exchange of personnel, friendly matches, training to football science and sponsorships. ·We will be signing an MOU with SAFA in April 2014. ·More Zimbabweans need to be appointed into COSAFA, CAF and FIFA Commiees. 11 THE ZIFA CUP The mother of all local Cup tournaments. An Iconic and legendary tournament, the ZIFA CUP is well known for its heart breaking knockouts and surprises which are always in store. It affords all teams from across the different football ers such as the elite Premier Soccer League to the social leagues to stand up and be counted as equals and just play football. This Cup will be my priority and I have already iniated negoaons with a potenal sponsor which will see the return of this presgious Cup. The sponsor in queson is waing in anxiety for the outcome of the ZIFA elecons.

PREMIER SOCCER LEAGUE Our PSL is the pride of ZIFA as evidenced by the way the league has been run over the years and the number of cooperates that have partnered with it. As an important affiliate ZIFA, I will devote energy to maintaining and strengthening the exisng working relaonship with the PSL as we together map a way of transforming Zimbabwean football from being an enty full of potenal, promise and opportunies into a business with real economic benefits for its various stakeholders. It is important to understand and arculate the changing nature of the relaonship between the growth of professional football and business success.

Football is big business and it is about me that our league became commercialised through robust markeng and sponsorship

Talent idenficaon and grooming Philosophy of brand posioning and growth of brand visibility through football The PSL can achieve even more than they have done to date for as long as we support them by creang an environment conducive for sponsorship partnerships and developing football business strategies

WOMENS FOOTBALL I dream of a day when the girl child will earn her keep from football. That day can be a reality if we increase the brand visibility of women football and encourage more women to play football. It is imperave that we find key strategies to improve the image of women professional football players in Zimbabwe so that the players can be respected and become role models to millions of women from rural and urban Zimbabwe.

The Mighty Warriors have done us proud as a naon over the last couple of years. They are currently on the verge of qualifying for the African Championships in Namibia if they win their next two matches against Zambia. Upon qualifying for Namibia they stand in goo steed to progress to the Women's World Cup in Canada 2015. I will work hard together with the new Women's execuve to strengthen the Girl Child grass roots football, revive the Zimbabwe Naonal Super League and promote a regeneraon of new players to add depth to the Mighty Warriors and thus ensure that they qualify for the World Cup, a feat I am confident we can achieve together.

12 It is against such lows and highs that I ask you to grant me a second term as ZIFA President to complete the many projects that I started. I believe I deserve a second chance because I have been selfless in service to you and to our country. I sll have unfinished business that I would like to see through if you elect me into office in 2014, I submit myself to work relessly for crical areas close to my heart which are:

JUNIOUR FOOTBALL DEVELOPMENT We will never succeed at naonal level for as long as we do not have a vibrant, well co-ordinated junior football strategy that seeks to “catch them young” from the ages of under nine. This junior football revoluon will be overseen by a highly qualified Technical Director who will be mandated to produce a four year technical strategy to scout, nurture and grow a naonal database of promising young players that are drawn from the ten provinces of our country. NAPH AND NASH will be crical partners in the success of our investment in junior football. These two instuons are the custodians of these young footballers and thus it is imperave that we work closely together to unearth the next Peter Ndlovu, George Shaya, Bruce Grobbelaar and many other football greats that have proudly worn our naonal jersey.

AFCON 2015 The past campaigns, our naon failed to qualify on the last decisive matches, first in Mali and second in Angola. When all had been fought for bravely during both campaigns, we failed as a naon to beat the last hurdle. Memories of both campaigns sll haunt me to this day. I pledge to lead a team of dedicated men and women whose sole focus will be to leave no stone unturned in our quest to qualify for AFCON 2015.

WORLD CUP 2018 Zimbabwe has NEVER qualified for the World Cup. I am confident that just as other African Countries have progressed in their levels of play and compeveness, so can we if we come together and approach football as a business and treat our players with greater respect and support them as much as we can. The establishment of a competent and highly qualified Technical Directorate will be key to mapping a strategic onslaught on RUSSIA 2018. We will give this campaign all the aenon and planning it deserves because, just like you, I believe it is about me Zimbabwe made a historic qualificaon to this iconic tournament that capvates the world every four years.

13 THE FANS The twelnveth man and woman. This is one of the most important and crical mass for football because no player wants to play in an empty stadium. For a long me our fans have been polarised with some claiming to be the only custodians of support. The greatest supporters are those who stand and support our players through the bad and good. As an administraon, I will work to bring every Zimbabwean together to rally behind our players and to support them morally, financially, spiritually and in any other way that uplis our football. In consultaon with respecve affiliates, I will ensure that our stadia are upgraded and are safe for anyone regardless of race or gender to watch football. We will work together to stamp out violence and any form of racism from our football.

LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT Zimbabwe is in a unique posion of having gone through the land reform programme. ZIFA should not be an excepon in being a beneficiary of that process. I have already begun negoaons with the relevant Ministry for us to be considered for land allocaon across the ten provinces. The acquision of land will allow us to be masters of our desny as we will be self sufficient and generate revenue for the Associaon from the endless projects we will run on these pieces of land. Ownership of land will also create employment and contribute posively to our economy.

I have also iniated negoaons with various local authories for ZIFA to acquire land to build provincial offices in the ten provincial capitals. This will ensure that ZIFA save thousands of dollars in rentals, consolidate our assets registry and generate revenue for ZIFA by leng out rooms as offices.

ACCESS ROAD TO ZIFA VILLAGE COMPLEX The link road to the ZIFA village Complex from Mazoe Road is to be resurfaced. I have already contracted a reputable firm to do the road works. This work that I will personally fund that will commence on May 1.

14 ELIMINATION OF DEBT It is no secret that my Board inheritated an Associaon with a debt running into millions of dollars and it is also no secret that my Board also incurred debts. Poinng figures will not eliminate the debts, I plan to engage our creditors and find each other for the common good of football. Where our debts can be wrien off, we will be most grateful and where we can negoate a payment plan we will do so. We will also engage our Ministry to help us sele some debts which are beyond us and were not of our own making such as the Zimbabwe VS Brazil match where ZIFA is now faced with a USD $700 000 lawsuit from KENTARO, Brazil match agent. I believe it is possible to eliminate these debts if we are truthful and honest with ourselves as we engage government, corporates and the supporters of this beauful game because “Light is the task where many share the toil”

WEEKLY MEDIA UPDATES There will be weekly media updates that will facilitate informaon disseminaon between ZIFA and its key stake holders. It is envisaged that these updates will eliminate gossip and the rumor-mill from taking over formal communicaon modes. Communicaon plaorms will include, but not limited to: 1. the ZIFA web site 2. Media briefs 3. Social media

STRATEGIC PLAN A FIFA funded 4 year strategic plan is on the offing within the first half of this year to help bring to speed new members of Council and Board.

COACHES It is my belief that for our naonal gain to aain internaonal standards, we need to cross-ferlise local talent with internaonal best coaching pracces. To that end, local coaches will be seconded to Brazil, Germany and Spain. Coaches in primary, secondary and terary schools will have their skills frequently upgraded to beer the development of junior football.

15 DR C E DUBE LEAGUE LAUNCH: MUDZI

16 SYLVIA DUBE MEMORIAL CHALLENGE: GWANDA

17 ZIFA VILLAGE

Artificial Turf

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18 Sylvia Dube Tournament, Gwanda

ZIFA Village: Artificial turf

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