Chiefs placed under transitional management
Boitumelo Khutsafalo | Wednesday April 26, 2017 14:39
The agreement followed a court case in which the court advised the two parties to discuss their matter out of court. The agreement was then turned into a court order the following day, the Trust’s chairperson, Raymond Tsheko told Chiefs supporters on Saturday at the emergency meeting held in Mochudi.
The court case, filed by a group led by Ramocha Tsieng questioned the existence of another committee led by chairperson, Ernest Molome.
They had argued that the committee’s tenure came to an end in 2012 and wanted all the decisions made by the committee nullified including the formation of a Trust.
With the Registrar of Societies having said they recognised both committees, the two warring groups failed to reach an agreement until the other faction sought the court’s intervention.
Addressing supporters on Saturday, Tsheko said the Society is now under transitional management. He was however surprised that up to now, the committee has not been formed, two months after a court order was made.
“The transitional committee will call you and brief you on that. But the expectation should be that they should have done that by now because as it stands, the situation is very bad for the club,” he said.
Tsheko said the internal squabbles and the subsequent court case saw them lose out on potential financiers.
He revealed that the Trust, which was formed in the club’s quest to turn professional, will officially be disbanded at the end of June.
He said the next annual general meeting will have to decide whether they resuscitate it in the future but that everything will have to start afresh. He said the only reason the Trust is still running until June is because it is the one, which is affiliated with the Botswana Football Association (BFA).
“If we stopped it before then, we would automatically be out of the BFA because the Trust is the one which paid for the affiliation of the club to the association,” Tsheko said.
With the court order now expected to put an end to the internal squabbles between the two recognised committees, it appears another centre of power has emerged at the Kgatleng giants.
Tsheko told the members at the meeting that following the negotiations with the other faction and the subsequent court order, they received a letter from the Council of Chairmen (COC) saying the committee led by him and Molome did not have the mandate to do a settlement.
“But we realised that they did not read the constitution properly. To be honest had we not put the interest of the club first, we would have long thrown in the towel.
In every organisation, there is about 20% of troublemakers and 80% of those that are innocent. We knew if we threw in the towel, we will be hurting 80% of innocent members of this club,” Tsheko said.
However a member of the COC, Reginald Madisa said the root cause of the problems at the club is the gap created between the COC and the Trust.
He said the formation of the COC was to close communication gaps in the club. He accused the committee under the Trust of not doing its job.
With just two months left before the Trust stops business, club spokesperson, Clifford Mogomotsi was concerned that if things are not speeded up in as far as the formation of the transitional committee is concerned, the club will miss out on important deadlines.
He said the committee that will begin running the club in June will have to be up to date with issues of club licensing among other things. “This coming season, all the Premier League clubs have to be compliant,” he said.