admin“The appeals committee is going to sit down at 10am to hear the appeals from officials and players implicated in the Asiagate scandal,” said Mashingaidze.
The committee is made up of three people, football administrator Chris Mbanga and two Advocates, Sillas Chekera and Thabani Mpofu.
Those who appealed had to pay US$6 000 per person for a review of the sanctions passed on them.
Some of those who were sanctioned have been arguing that the process that led to their conviction was flawed as they were not brought before a disciplinary hearing as provided by the Zifa Constitution.
Zifa has been under pressure to finalise the appeals because the 0players and officials involved, suspended or banned, want to continue with their football lives.
Mashingaidze last month had confirmed that they had set March 31 as the deadline for all the appeals, involving Asiagate, to have been dealt with.
The hearings failed to get underway as the chairman for the appeals’ committee, Advocate Chekera, was out of the country on official business in Kenya.
CAPS United and Shabanie are also waiting for the fate of their coaches, Taurai Mangwiro and Luke Masomere.
Shabanie Mine have lost their two first matches of the season but the club have resisted appointing another coach until Masomere’s issue is finalised.
“We will stand by Masomere and at the moment Jani (Arnold) will be in charge of the team” said Greg Mataka the team president for Shabanie Mine. CAPS United are also praying that Mangwiro gets the greenlight to continue coaching as they are under the guidance of caretaker coach, Brenna Msiska.
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