{"id":104432,"date":"2025-02-13T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president"},"modified":"2025-02-16T01:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:27:43","slug":"phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president","title":{"rendered":"Phiri, Machana Withdraw Appeals Against Magwizi&#8217;s Election As ZIFA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Former Premier Soccer League boss Twine Phiri and former ZIFA financial director Phillemon Machana have withdrawn their appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, where they were challenging Nqobile Magwizi\u2019s election as ZIFA president.<\/p>\n<p>Phiri and Machana had filed the appeal, alleging interference in the election after businessman Wicknell Chivayo offered a US$10 million sponsorship to the association and personal vehicles to ZIFA councillors in exchange for voting for Magwizi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, Phiri and Machana confirmed that they were withdrawing their appeal.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that the decision was made to give football space to heal, stabilise, and grow, allowing the new executive committee to begin with a clean slate and without any contest.<\/p>\n<p>The two also said that Chivayo, being no stranger to football sponsorship, should no longer be seen as having interfered in the election process. They added:<br \/>\nOur engagements over the past few days, both solicited and unsolicited with several key stakeholders, have influenced this latest decision.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful that in this season, ZIFA has attracted massive support and contributions from diverse sections of the population to whom we are indebted.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals like Mr. Chivayo and corporates alike have historically stood with the nation and the footballing world, sacrificing personal resources even in dire times. Such support is always encouraged and welcome and must not stop.<\/p>\n<p>We therefore announce as we hereby do, that we are withdrawing the CAS appeal&#8230; we have instructed our lawyers to do the needful and withdraw the CAS appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Chivayo proposed a meeting with Phiri and Machana to \u201capologize, and agree on a gentleman\u2019s private settlement, rather than have them tarnish my precious name over unfounded allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Former Premier Soccer League boss Twine Phiri and former ZIFA financial director Phillemon Machana have withdrawn their appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, where they were challenging Nqobile Magwizi\u2019s election as ZIFA president. Phiri and Machana had filed the appeal, alleging interference in the election after businessman Wicknell Chivayo offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":104431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[17397,17788,17786,4374,17162,17265,19],"class_list":["post-104432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nqobile-magwizi","tag-phillemon-machana","tag-twine-phiri","tag-wicknell-chivayo","tag-zifa-elections","tag-zifa-elective-congress","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Phiri, Machana Withdraw Appeals Against Magwizi&#039;s Election As ZIFA President - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Premier Soccer League boss Twine Phiri and former ZIFA financial director Phillemon Machana have withdrawn their ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phiri, Machana Withdraw Appeals Against Magwizi&#039;s Election As ZIFA President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Premier Soccer League boss Twine Phiri and former ZIFA financial director Phillemon Machana have withdrawn their ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-13T20:02:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-15T23:27:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739471798.376876.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"757\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Phiri, Machana Withdraw Appeals Against Magwizi&#8217;s Election As ZIFA President\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-13T20:02:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T23:27:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\"},\"wordCount\":308,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739471798.376876.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nqobile Magwizi\",\"Phillemon Machana\",\"Twine Phiri\",\"Wicknell Chivayo\",\"ZIFA Elections\",\"ZIFA Elective Congress\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/phiri-machana-withdraw-appeals-against-magwizis-election-as-zifa-president\",\"name\":\"Phiri, Machana Withdraw Appeals Against Magwizi's Election As ZIFA President - 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