PLS EXECUTIVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL WAR

MBABANE – A serious constitutional mess is simmering on the legality of some PLS executive committee members triggered by the contentious ‘super buddies’ saga.

In what was a promptly convened meeting of the committee chaired by Victor Gamedze on Thursday, our source revealed that the legitimacy of three members was raised in the meeting before the matter was referred to next week.
The members in question are Mduduzi ‘Tsotsi’ Mabila, Steve Horton and Sicelo Mkhonta.

The source said the issue surfaced as the debate over the recent charging of ‘super buddies’ Mbabane Highlanders and Manzini Wanderers for bringing football into disrepute were discussed.
Mabila was elected into the committee two years ago while he was still chairman of Hellenic F.C, but last season he changed camps to join Manzini Wanderers after he was appointed Managing Director.

Horton also won elections at the time when his Hub Sundowns team was still campaigning in the National First Division, but the club has since ceased to be a PLS member after relegation to Manzini Super League last year May.

 “The meeting was told that Horton was co-opted as per the constitution when his team was relegated, and so was Sea Birds’ representative Sicelo Mkhonta. However, there is also a vacant position left by the demise of Red Lions boss Busi Dlamini who has not been replaced,” the source said. With these three members’ legitimacy under serious scrutiny, it follows that the Executive only has two people whose candidacy cannot be questioned and that is the PLS Chairman Victor ‘Maradona’ Gamedze and Midas Mbabane City’s Peter ‘Touch’ Magagula.

“The quorum of the same executive committee was then questioned, but the members then decided to defer the matter to next week,” the source said.
Mabila and Horton were questioned on the matter but they both  declined to comment, only saying that the executive will be meeting again next week.

PLS CEO John Mazibuko was called on the issue but was reluctant to commit himself.
“I am not one person who shies away from the media when they want to clarify certain things from my office but this issue is way too bigger than me. The best person for it is the chairman,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Highlanders and Wanderers cases have not been argued yet as the clubs instead await a verdict over the legal representative Zakhele Dlamini, a former PLS CEO, on whether he qualified or not as per the PLS Rules and Regulations on former employees.

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