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Caroline Magenga Sports Reporter
FORMER Zifa communications manager Nicholett Moyo Dhlamini is adamant that the Deputy Sheriff will go ahead and auction the association’s property that was attached as part of efforts to recover her outstanding salaries Dhlamini won a Labour Court order against Zifa for unlawful dismissal and with the soccer mother body unable to pay off what they owe her, she resorted to attaching property at Zifa Village in Mt Hampden and the Zifa headquarters at 53 Livingstone Avenue.
The Deputy Sheriff has since advertised the sale by auction of the property which is set for tomorrow at a Harare auctioneer.
Her lawyers insisted yesterday that they would not entertain Zifa’s last ditch efforts to stop the auctioning of their property tomorrow following the court order they received.
Harare lawyer Kumbirai Masasire of Musoni and Masasire legal chambers said plans were going ahead to auction the property tomorrow to recover money owed to their client after winning an arbitration award at the courts.
The property, which was attached last year is set to go under the hammer tomorrow to recover US$88 000 in outstanding salaries and payments. Masasire argued that Dhlamini was entitled to a 30-month back pay, US$6 000 for not being given notice in advance and US$6 000 for leave days.
Part of the property set to go under the hammer under the case HC6169/14 include desktops, leather sofas, lawnmowers, wooden desks, bags, balls, FIFA bibs, a glass table and stool, data cards, black bags, 23 football balls, Adidas shorts, football jerseys, magazines, DVD’s, 3 piece display and a printer .
“This is the final stage of the matter, I don’t see any reason why the sale would not go through because the auction is an enforcement of a judgment that was already handed by the court and that will be the end of the matter,” said Masasire.
Zifa lawyer Ralph Maganga, however, claimed that they were still engaging Dhlamini in negotiations to see a way forward before the auction day but it appears time is not on their side.
Maganga said the fact that the advertisement had come out in the newspaper was a fulfilment of a legal requirement, but maintained that negotiations with Masasire were promising to bear fruit.
“Negotiations are still ongoing and they are proving fruitful. In fact we are meeting them tomorrow (today) to try and see a way forward.
“The fact that the advert for the day of the auction came out is neither here nor there because if we meet her demands then she can instruct the auction to be stopped so we are still in talks until Wednesday,” said Maganga.
But Masasire seemed to contradict Maganga’s sentiments arguing that they were past the stage of negotiations. “There has been no communication or any changes in the auction date and at this stage we are not tolerating any negotiations since the court already issued a judgment that is just left to be enforced.”
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