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Elkanah Dube resigns from Bosso board
15 Dec 2010 at 15:32hrs | Views
HIGHLANDERS' board member Elkanah Dube has resigned from his position because of pressing work commitments that saw him missing out on several board meetings.
He tendered his resignation on 2 December.
"It is true that Dube is no longer a board member at Highlanders after he tendered his resignation citing work commitments," Highlanders board secretary and spokesman Jimmy Ncube said yesterday.
Dube also confirmed that he has stepped down as a Highlanders board member.
"I realised that the amount of responsibility I now have at my work place meant that I would have little time with the Highlanders system, which also needs time," said Dube, who has been a loyal club servant, working with four different executives.
He said he will always be ready to assist the club if asked to.
"I have served the better part of my life in and with Highlanders and as such I cannot rule out another opportunity and privilege to serve this great institution," he said.
The board secretary said Dube, who joined the board last year together with Mgcini Nkolomi and Nicholas Mathonsi, would have to be replaced at the next annual general meeting of the club.
"Our constitution says board members must be endorsed at an annual general meeting of members. I think Dube has to be replaced at our next such meeting, to held in February next year," said Ncube.
This paper understands that Dube and another board member, Isaac Mlilo, have not been attending meetings until other board members asked them to step down or risk being fired.
During the Matopo National Park Highlanders board strategic planning meeting, which was organised through the Finance and Turnaround Committee (Fitco), other board members are said to have taken a stance to whip absconding members as they felt they caused unnecessary drawbacks to the club.
Dube is said to have been bold enough and tendered his letter the following day while Mlilo said he felt he still had something to offer to the Highlanders institution.
He also argued that he had always been giving excuses as to why he would miss meetings.
However, Ncube denied that the board asked the duo to step aside.
"It is not true what you are saying. Dube cited pressure of work saying he could not continue with the board's work and we understood his worries," said Ncube.
Dube is the principal for Hillside Teachers' College.
He is an educationist trained in Sierra Leone. He has more than two decades of sports administration experience.
Notably he was part of the administration of the successful Highlanders Basketball Club of the 1990s. It was during his tenure that the Highlanders Sports Association, an umbrella body of a number of disciplines at Masotsha Avenue, was most successful.
It produced national stars in soccer, volleyball, basketball and netball.
He tendered his resignation on 2 December.
"It is true that Dube is no longer a board member at Highlanders after he tendered his resignation citing work commitments," Highlanders board secretary and spokesman Jimmy Ncube said yesterday.
Dube also confirmed that he has stepped down as a Highlanders board member.
"I realised that the amount of responsibility I now have at my work place meant that I would have little time with the Highlanders system, which also needs time," said Dube, who has been a loyal club servant, working with four different executives.
He said he will always be ready to assist the club if asked to.
"I have served the better part of my life in and with Highlanders and as such I cannot rule out another opportunity and privilege to serve this great institution," he said.
The board secretary said Dube, who joined the board last year together with Mgcini Nkolomi and Nicholas Mathonsi, would have to be replaced at the next annual general meeting of the club.
"Our constitution says board members must be endorsed at an annual general meeting of members. I think Dube has to be replaced at our next such meeting, to held in February next year," said Ncube.
This paper understands that Dube and another board member, Isaac Mlilo, have not been attending meetings until other board members asked them to step down or risk being fired.
During the Matopo National Park Highlanders board strategic planning meeting, which was organised through the Finance and Turnaround Committee (Fitco), other board members are said to have taken a stance to whip absconding members as they felt they caused unnecessary drawbacks to the club.
Dube is said to have been bold enough and tendered his letter the following day while Mlilo said he felt he still had something to offer to the Highlanders institution.
He also argued that he had always been giving excuses as to why he would miss meetings.
However, Ncube denied that the board asked the duo to step aside.
"It is not true what you are saying. Dube cited pressure of work saying he could not continue with the board's work and we understood his worries," said Ncube.
Dube is the principal for Hillside Teachers' College.
He is an educationist trained in Sierra Leone. He has more than two decades of sports administration experience.
Notably he was part of the administration of the successful Highlanders Basketball Club of the 1990s. It was during his tenure that the Highlanders Sports Association, an umbrella body of a number of disciplines at Masotsha Avenue, was most successful.
It produced national stars in soccer, volleyball, basketball and netball.
Source - ByoNews
