Gumede not back yet!

HIGHLANDERS have distanced themselves from utterances made by board member Davies Ndumiso Sibanda last Friday that its expelled chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede has been reinstated by the club following a Labour Court ruling.

The club said the status quo that was resolved during a joint board and executive meeting that the veteran administrator be suspended from his post in compliance with a Zifa directive still stands.

"The Highlanders position remains the same. The meeting we sat as a joint board and executive resolved to comply with a Zifa directive. Anything else that happens outside that resolution is not and will never be the position of Highlanders Football Club. We don't want to be at variance with those who run football in this country, " said the Highlanders secretary general Emmett Ndlovu. However we understand that there has been a ruling at the Labour Court and the best person to comment on that is Davies Sibanda".

Ndlovu is also the new spokesperson of the club in the new dispensation at the country's oldest club that has seen vice chairman Modern Ngwenya taking over the reigns at the club on an acting capacity following the suspension of executive chairman Peter Dube by Zifa.

Gumede hauled his employer to the Labour Court last week challenging his suspension and Highlanders, who were ironically represented by Sibanda, did not challenge the application.