Sundaymail EditorPREMIERSHIP heavyweights Dynamos and Highlanders will lock horns in the Gushungo Victory Cup set for November 30 at the National Sports Stadium in Harare.
The challenge match will celebrate President Robert Mugabe’s resounding victory in last year’s harmonised elections, the organisers said last night.
The clash presents Highlanders with an opportunity to finish the season on a high following a horrific turn of events that saw their league title aspirations going off the rails after a promising start.
It will also give Bosso another chance to end their long standing misery at the hands of their bitter rivals having already failed to do so in back-to-back league clashes, and the TM Pick ‘n’ Pay and Bob 90 cups this year.
Premier Soccer League chief executive, Kenny Ndebele, in a letter to his zifa counterpart Jonathan Mashingaidze, confirmed that the match will be staged on the last weekend of the month.
“Please be advised that the PSL programme is at its climax and will only have a slot for the Gushungo Celebrations on the weekend November 29-30, 2014.
“Would you kindly advise the organisers of this important event accordingly? We assume that you will provide the participating teams with competition rules and regulations,” wrote Ndebele.
zifa in turn, notified the Sports and Recreation Commission of the match.
“The Zimbabwe Football Association, following receipt of a letter from the Premier Soccer League hereto attached, hereby confirms that the Gushungo Cup shall be played during the weekend of November 29-30, 2014,” wrote Mashingaidze to the SRC.
The organising committee’s finance director Emmanuel Sunduza, who spoke in the presence of his chair, Blessed Mushando, said the celebrations are meant to give soccer-loving and patriotic Zimbabweans an opportunity to celebrate with the President.
“We decided to organise these celebrations in honour of a great revolutionary who has not had the opportunity to celebrate his extraordinary endorsement with the people as he has been busy implementing his election promises.
“Zimbabwe is a soccer-loving nation so we saw it fit to celebrate through the unifying sport of football. We would have obviously wanted to have more teams participating but we ended up settling for two due to a number of reasons beyond our control. The selection of Highlanders and Dynamos was based on the fact that they are the two biggest clubs in the country,” said Sunduza.
Sunduza said Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangangwa, who was the President’s chief election agent, is the patron of the tournament and will be the guest of honour on match day.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter