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Noel Munzabwa .
IMAGINE paying $560 for an order of a 18-jersey soccer kit and 10 balls but four years down you still have not received the supply, what else would you do besides growing impatient?
This is what the Victoria Falls-based Trumus Football Club director Tafadzwa Mutowa has had to endure since 2013 after paying Julius Chakupewa, now Ivan Hoe coach, for the kit and soccer balls which are yet to be supplied.
Tales and indeed different versions have been told, and contacts blocked over the period.
One such story that Mutowa has lived with is that the supply got lost in transit using an unnamed malayitsha from Johannesburg in 2013 and since then, a replacement is still being sought.
a�?What happened is that I ordered a kit and 10 soccer balls in 2013 through Julius Chakupewa-run sports consultancy in 2013. I paid him $560 for the order and he promised to deliver. Months later he claimed to have dispatched the order.
a�?He later claimed the supply got lost in transit through a malayitsha. Further inquiries resulted in him blocking my number cutting off all communication between us. It was only early this year that I finally got through to him via his Swazi number.
a�?It was only for a while before he changed to a Zimbabwe number. A friend then tried to mediate between us. I managed to get an acknowledgment letter in which he promised that I was going to get the order in mid March.a�?
The acknowledgment letter from Impact Capital Alliance dated 8 February 2017 signed by Phumlani Ncube, in our possession, read as follows:
a�?I note with regret the inconvenience that you have gone through over the football equipment sourced on your behalf through our member Mr Julius Chakupewa and hereby commit as a company that you receive your equipment as ordered as the circumstances therein were beyond anyonea��s control.
a�?We had already closed our books for February purchases and we commit to furnish you with the full consignment by the 10th of March 2017 (10 balls and a football kit). We regret for all the inconveniences caused.a�?
Contacted last week, Chakupewa made a commitment that the equipment would be ready on Monday but nothing materialised prompting Mutowa to hand his matter to his legal advisor for further action.
Chakupewa embarked on a blame game.
a�?Ita��s just the guys in SA who arena��t doing things on time. I am doing all I can to have the stuff delivered.
a�?If I had the money l would just buy and give him and move on. That lady Mirriam was given the money to buy the kit on Saturday,a�? said Chakupewa.
The former Manzini Wanderers coach is not new to such controversy with the biggest being the fake legends match between Zimbabwe and Zambia played in Harare and Zvishavane with the visitors later stranded in the Midlands before FC Platinum Holdings saved the embarrassment.
Gate takings from the matches were not publicly accounted.
Just last year, his arrival in Swaziland when taking up the Manzini Wanderers job, it is alleged he claimed to be a holder of a Caf A Licence in his Curriculum Vitae but the Swazi football authorities insisted on seeing the copy.
Upon confirmation from technical authorities in Harare, it emerged he didna��t even hold a Caf B which he was to later attend in South Africa. The Swazi outfit had to fire him in January after waiting in vain for the Caf B certificate.
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