Ozias Bvute and ZC mess

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Ozias Bvute and ZC mess

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Just came across this...

Josep Madyembwa :
Let me give you some detailed information about the devil called Ozias Bvute the idiot behind all this mess we crying about day and night. Before Bvute joined the ZC he had just returned from Botswana where his public relations company closed down/bankrupt under some unclear circumstances. He apparently left a huge debt. He then opened a company here called Rhizoma Invest t/a as P & C Limited. This company was also struggling and had huge debts. He then got involved with ZC through Max Ebrahim whose wife is from Botswana. He attended a few Intergration Meetings and impressed with his command in English and was appointd on the ZC Board and assumed the position of Director of Integration. He plotted his was up and bacame the Managing Director and with Chingoka took control of Zimbabwe Cricket Union. They got rid of every director that knew something about cricket and in one year from a bank balance of USD$8 million left when Vince Hogg was the MD, the coffers were cleaned up. Reserve Bank got involved, Chingoka and Bvute even got arrested but got away with fines because of their strong political connections. Several players were also caught up in the fiasco and were arrested and later released without charges. A vote of no confident was passed by provinces but the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) ruled in their favour and were reappointed to run ZC. The rest is history. Ozias now claims that he loaned ZC his own money. Where the hell did he get that sort of cash.He claims his wife who is a doctor earns $300 a month and our "UNEDUCATED PLAYERS" do not deserve any money. If the claims are true that she earns USD$300 a month so how the hell did she open a Golf Shop called Golf USA in Borrowdale with stocks worth over USD$500,000. ZC also controversially purchased an OB Van (OZIAS BVUTE VAN / OUTSIDE BROADCAST VAN excuse the banter) and the price was inflated. Where is this van now and how much revenue has it brought to ZC? At one Stage it was being hired in countries like Malawi and Tanzania. Where are all the proceeds? Used to lie to people thats its in South Africa for maintenance yet in Zim there were qualified engineers who used to do maintenance work before and during the games.
More to follow on the current day to day operations of ZC.
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You have to wonder how about this. I've just been reading a huge expose on many of our politicians as well (I'll post the link if anyone is interested.) OB 1 Kanobe is really only small potatoes compared to what his mates get up to. He'll be wondering what the fuss is all about, he's only being accused of misappropriating 10-20 mill (an extra 12 if you count his 3 months at Air Zim) and it's still vaguely working. ICC may even prop us up indefinitely and he'll be the envy of everyone- a cash cow that doesn't die if you milk it to death and take off the fillet.

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Josep Madyembwa :
On today's press conference the ZC Chairman Wilson Manase said he was disappointed with the team results, thought they would do better. he said India and Pakistan will be touring Zimbabwe in 2015.Ireland and possibly England in 2018. South Africa has invited ZC to play in the domestic competition and financial woes will continue to 2019. Players should not demand too much ZC operating on a shoe string budget and he says that he being Chairman gets nothing from ZC.

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Then he won't have a problem showing the public what all the board members and administrators are earning?

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More I read about Bvute, more surreal it gets. However, if things were going to change, they would have changed when Taibu claimed that Bvute gave him and his family death threats. Taibu was running all around the globe to resurrect a career (SA, Namibia, Bangladesh, ...) while Bvute and his goons grew stronger. If this is how the country treats its own heroes, there is no hope, really.


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Good to see Campbell looks to be involved again, but does ZC really need more levels of management?
The organisation needs to be more streamlined with the right people in the right positions.

I wonder how much the franchises are weighing ZC down.

It would be good to get some input from the guys on the ground about this - do the Mashonaland, Matabeleland, Midlands, Manicaland Cricket Associations still exist? If so, how much control do they have over the franchises (if any)? Who runs club cricket in each province, the franchise or the provincial association? Correct me if I am wrong, but I suspect it's the franchises running club cricket, and of course it's ZC propping up the franchises. So basically the national cricket board is funding every single level of cricket in the country, which cannot be sustainable. If despite all this the provincial associations still exist, what do they do?

I still can't get over the fact the players are paid (or supposed to be paid) at club level. Is there any reason why club cricket shouldn't be strictly an amateur affair? A place for people who enjoy cricket to have a bit of fun, and as a stepping stone to the big leagues (franchise cricket) for those that are more serious about it and want to make a career out of it.

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I didn't get that "paying club players" concept either...

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Well let me explain it to you- if they don't offer $10 for people to play club cricket there won't be 9-11 clubs in Harare (most of which have no home ground), but realistically there would be enough players for 2-3 and most of the players would be white. There's quite a strong boozer's league of around 10 clubs (all the players are whites, Indians or Coloreds) but they like the T20 format and won't play 50 over cricket. There are a couple of really good players in this league and it's very well run. Amongst this lot not a single person wants anything to do with ZC, many of them have been bitten in the past. I can't answer for Bulawayo league.

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Well let me explain it to you- if they don't offer $10 for people to play club cricket there won't be 9-11 clubs in Harare (most of which have no home ground), but realistically there would be enough players for 2-3 and most of the players would be white.
Is this purely an economic thing? Do they need to be paid because that day they spend on the cricket field they are losing income from selling something or doing something else?

Or are we talking about people who just don't care enough about cricket to play otherwise, but if that $10 carrot is dangled in front of them then what the heck they'll run in and have a bowl?

If it's the former, then ZC are in an unenviable position and if $10 per person is what it takes then I'm not sure if they have any alternative.
But if it's the latter, these guys aren't national team prospects anyway so the clubs may as well fold if they are just being propped up for show.

It's got to be the former right? I can't believe there are only 30 odd people in Harare willing to play cricket for fun (friendlies league aside).

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