#ZCBOARD MUST GO

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ZIMDOGGY wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:11 am
Unions can be powerful even unreasonably so.

The problem I see is everyone whines and wants change to happen in Zimbabwe cricket.

They just want someone else to do it.
I remember trying to speak to some people in Zim last time. They tried to get involved but were immediately branded as racist and told something along the lines of, 'Zim doesn't need colonialists'

You can understand why people then don't want to get involved. There is still an invested interest, but the effort required to work with certain individuals is probably not worth it.

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This is the problem you are immediately branded a racist . Others that have sat on boards before Makoni bullied them off were receiving phone death threats to resign.
Nowadays they wont touch the system.

I think the ZANU candidates must leave in August elections......replaced with their puppets or maybe Bvute himself :ugeek:

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MP of some constituency with failed command agriculture and zero infrastructure or Chairman of a company that mysteriously gets 10 mil a year from benefactors with absolutely no requirement for accountability is hardly a choice. There’s still a mountain load of cash to make as an MP though allowances, tenders, land grabs, grants, bribes etc.
it’s unfair that they can’t do both, they’re going to have to watch their pennies
I was just reading about our ex chairman of our civil aviation who’s fallen out of favour and found himself temporarily in jail, bear in mind it’s all catch and release.
He awarded himself the tender to put in some high tech ground radar in 2014. The equipment and installation costs about $3m and he magnanimously agreed to do it for $30m. Of course he couldn’t bring himself to actually do it as that would have been an unnecessary expense. That excludes the millions that are missing from the books of Robert Mugabe Airport and Vic Falls airport, which was refurbished at 4 times what it actually cost.
He’ll be out in no time, but for sure he’s eaten enough and now it’s someone else’s turn.

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https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2019/0 ... mens-game/


THEY screamed squeakily like little children and simultaneously leapt into the air with boundless joy.

Just a few hours earlier, the sounds of 11 Emiratis out on the field had been nothing really, buried underneath the cheering and singing of 18 000 Zimbabweans in the cozy little stadium.

Now, their celebrations sounded like deafening noise amid deathly and stunned silence among the record Harare Sports Club crowd.

Minnows United Arab Emirates (UAE) had just defeated the tournament hosts in a rain-affected qualifier on March 22, 2018, and with that, Zimbabwe were not going to the World Cup for the first time since 1983.

As for the UAE, they were, incredibly, also not going to the World Cup!

Dealing such a heavy blow to a Test nation was a massive result in the history of an emerging international cricket team, probably their own little World Cup.

Had the ICC not taken the Sprit of Cricket award from teams to individuals in 2011, last year’s accolade should simply have gone to UAE for playing to compete and win no matter the stakes — even if it means inflicting untold suffering on the opponent.

Picking through the wreckage of that shock UAE defeat has been a painstaking exercise for Zimbabwe to the extent that the already questionable integrity of some of the game’s current administrators has plummeted to new lows through allegations of match-fixing against the coach and players, which is, of course, a load of rubbish.

So poisonous has been the environment in the aftermath of the disaster that a few ill-willed individuals have emerged, chief amongst them a certain shadowy character, who has turned cyber-bullying into an art while hiding behind fake identity.

Now, this shameful fellow — believed to a top-ranking somebody in the game or his hired agent — majors in abuse and personal insults, going all-out offense against those he disagrees with among the cricket lovers who blame the administration of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) for the shambolic state of the game in Zimbabwe.

An easy target of his has particularly been poor Patrick Gada, the England-based youth coach and former Zimbabwe first-class player who has been unfortunate enough to have his dead parents insulted by this chap for daring to front public criticism against those entrusted with administering cricket in this country.

As if that is not vile enough, this imposter has gone as far as threatening to influence Gada’s deportation from the UK — despite him not only being legally resident in that country, but also an esteemed and highly-regarded member of the Nottinghamshire sporting community with credentials far better than those calling the shots in Zimbabwean cricket right now.

Other very good cricket people — who have also been singled out for persecution by this crude character for daring to speak out against mismanagement — have been accused of sickening all-male sexual encounters which, again, only exist in such a heart as his that devises wicked imaginations.

Only last week, the guy was at it again, this time around taking aim at national team kingpin Brendan Taylor who, like Gada, is however no push-over.

Like most compassionate citizens of our country who felt deeply touched by the heartbreaking video of a weeping Dr Azza Mashumba — a Parirenyatwa Hospital paediatrician who broke down on camera last month over the lack of basics needed to look after newly-born babies — Taylor’s crime was taking to Twitter to encourage authorities “to get our priorities right”, sharing a sad story of how his own domestic worker lost her three-day-old child due to poor maternal health services.

You would think, at times, that you have heard worse from cowardly types that hide behind a computer or cellphone to spew vitriol under the guise of fictitious names. But nothing quite makes you understand the disintegration of the human mind as shamelessly displayed by this imposter in a shocking reaction to Taylor’s tweet: implying he had been sent by David Coltart, that the cricketer didn’t have a mind of his own, that he felt “emboldened to speak more” these days because his friend Kirsty Coventry was now a minister, and then a thinly-veiled threat to the star Zimbabwe batsman that he should stick to scoring runs and not meddle in “politics”.

So according to this internet troll — because of Taylor’s racial group or perceived politics — he has no right to comment about other critical issues affecting the country, and also his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association to whosoever he wishes should be a tool to suppress his participation in other matters close to his heart.

Thankfully, such ludicrous thoughts found no takers among the genuine Twitter users and upstanding citizens of the country — interestingly all of them black — who not surprisingly reacted with extreme disgust and told this poisonous internet character what they think he is, a fool.

A year after cruelly shattering our World Cup dream, leaving Zimbabwean cricket in such a toxic environment that has bred wickedness amongst us, the UAE’s cricket team returns to this country for four historic One-Day Internationals beginning on Wednesday.

It’s an important series for Zimbabwe because, quite frankly, anything other than a convincing win will not suffice, a recipe for another blow-up probably bigger the size of what happened post-March 2018 when UAE left us to deal with obnoxious and uncouth characters hell-bent on poisoning society.

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WHo is this vitrios person abusing individuals?

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jimmylesaint wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2019 8:40 pm
WHo is this vitrios person abusing individuals?
https://twitter.com/FrankMawoza1/status ... 9664491521
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I hope @DavidColtart is not the reason for this tweet.While u may feel emboldened to speak more becoz yo friend @KirstyCoventry is now a minister be reminded politics is not yo forte.Focus on knocking em runs for @ZimCricketv

https://twitter.com/BrendanTaylor86/sta ... 3450583043
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My tweet had nothing to do with Mr Coltart or our Sports Minister. It purely touched me and I felt it was necessary to share it. Ridiculous reply from you.

https://twitter.com/FrankMawoza1/status ... 6775114753
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Henry Olonga and Andy flower started off like this before long they were plotting with @DavidColtart .Black armbands followed.Olonga being black was dumped, Andy being white ended up with a contract with the ECB.

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Thanks.
Interesting handles.
Time for me to log in to my twitter account.
Must say it is a standard bully boy thing to whiteys to stay out of politics, thrown about like a veiled threat.
"enjoy the river and braais and you will,,,,if you stay out of politics!"

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Sounds like a good quality troll if journalists are making articles about him.
Cricinfo profile of the 'James Bond' of cricket:

FULL NAME: Angus James Mackay
BORN: 13 June 1967, Harare
KNOWN AS: Gus Mackay

'The' Gus Mackay.

Hero.
Sportsman.
Artist.
Player.

**
Q. VUSI SIBANDA, WHERE DO YOU HOP?

A. UNDA DA ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE*

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Outrageous comments, death threats and all.

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I was just looking at Brian Goredema’s tweet yesterday. We’re doomed here, ZC incumbents cementing their spots without even a fight from anybody.
Kirsty Coventry doing photo shoots in New York and not prepared to do anything that might annoy anybody. Mliswa was right about her. Very very disappointing, completely ill-equipped to be a politician/minister.

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