HIGHLANDERS long-time benefactor Tshinga Dube has urged the current club leadership, led by Peter Dube, to step down and pave way for the injection of new blood as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League giants grapple with the prospect of a relegation dogfight.
BY FORTUNE MBELE
Bosso are languishing on the 10th position in the 16-team table but too close to the drop zone for comfort with just a six-point cushion ahead of their last six defining matches.
They have won just one match in their last five and no other club has got a worse record during that period.
Only WhaWha, 12, Flame Lily, 11, and Dongo Sawmills, 12, have lost more matches than Highlanders, and they have not given up on staying afloat.
The former champions have responded to their loss in form with the axing of coach Bongani Mafu, but the roping-in of Amini Soma-Phiri has not helped the situation either and Tshinga-Dube has demanded that the leadership steps aside.
He absolved the players of any blame laying it squarely on the administration and fears the team could be condemned to Division One football.
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“I cannot believe that people are folding their hands and watching the team die a natural death,” said Dube. “ We must question whether the supporters love it or they do not care what happens. We must know that everything has a cause and effect. The administrators of the team certainly must accept the blame and do the most honourable thing in given circumstances, that is, leaving the others to try,”
Tshinga Dube, a Highlanders life member and MP for Makokoba, poured in $20 000 for the purchase of a luxury coach for Highlanders and has many a time come to the club’s rescue in its time of need.
“Any noble person knows that if you are given a responsibility and you fail to perform, you must gracefully come forward and say I cannot do it. Let somebody else do it. What is it in this soccer administration? Is it for prestige? Is it for fame? Or it’s just an ego that one is in the administration of a soccer team?”
He added that the club was so dear to some so much that they had made sacrifices for the club to remain at the top.
“But time has since come that they must hand over the baton.
“We must appreciate that if you are a board member you must be someone who contributes to the well-being of the club not by name, but by ability.” Dube also called for an emergency indaba to try and solve the leadership crisis at Highlanders where he hopes there can be wholesale changes at the top including the board.
The Highlanders constitution has provision for a vote of no-confidence in the club executive.
Article 7.6 of the Bosso constitution reads: “The executive committee or any member thereof may be removed from office by a vote of no-confidence passed by a two-thirds majority of a special general meeting.”
Article 17.1 and 2 says: “Extraordinary general meetings shall be held at any time to discuss any urgent matter. Members shall be entitled to at least seven days’ notice of such meeting, to which shall be attached an agenda for the meeting.”
Sources said former Highlanders players are also planning to arrange a meeting with the executive to air their displeasure at the current scenario obtaining at Bosso.
