Zimbabwe: HAZ, Superiors on Collision Course

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The Herald (Harare)

10 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008

Harare

The Harare Athletic Board are heading for a collision course with their superiors, the National Athletic Association Board, over the provincial association's bid to hold an election at their general meeting at Prince Edward School tomorrow, writes Augustine Hwata.

It merged last night that the HAB want to hold a meeting tomorrow where elections for office bearers of the next four years will top the agenda.

The current HAB executive was initially elected for a three-year term that ended in September last year but were asked by the NAAZ board to serve for another year so that the term runs with the Olympic cycle.

The Olympics Games were held in Beijing this August.

There is going to be the Dzivaresekwa 10km race at Prince Edward School tomorrow before the HAB meeting.

Sources in HAB said the provincial board has been told to put on hold their elections until a later date but has rightly remained defiant.

"We tried to have these elections sometime last year but had to postpone.

"We have set another agenda for this year and we cannot postpone again.

"An agenda has been sent to the clubs and we will see how it goes on Sunday.

"As HAB we has resolved to hold an AGM and elections are one item on the agenda.

"However, above all we want to work for the development of athletics as a province and then pass on to the national association," said the source.

A source said HAB has asked for a returning officer from NAAZ.

"I do not want to pre-empt what the meeting will say but we have asked for a presiding officer for the elections and up to now we have got no response," he said.

At the moment Zimbabwean athletics is in a quandary over a constitution as some affiliates are using a document that call for a four-year term which coincides with the Olympic cycle while other bodies follow the three-year tenure.

Where is the Sports Commission here?

But if elections are held at PE tomorrow, members elected should go on to elect the national executive later this year, another source said.

"As HAB, we do not have the mandate of the people to run the executive and these should be elections for HAB and not NAAZ.

"However if elected at HAB or any provinces those people will go to elect at the NAAZ meeting," said another source.

At the elections set for tomorrow, Cottoco Rugby festival director Sebastian Garikayi is running for the office of HAB chairman. The HAB has been without a chairman since the death of Claver Machiridza last month and James Mtisi, who has been acting chairman, is also gunning for the same post.

Before the HAB's likely explosive meeting, the rerouted Dzivaresekwa 10km race will kick-start the day.

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