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'Bosso changes involve ordinary members'
25 Jul 2016 at 02:02hrs | Views
ORDINARY card-carrying Highlanders members are also an important element in the turnaround strategy that the club has embarked on and it would be suicidal not to involve them, Bosso's restructuring committee chairperson and former secretary general, Elkannah Dube, has said.
Life members met at the clubhouse on Saturday and agreed to contribute $20 monthly as part of the survival methods to save the 90-year-old club from collapse.
Highlanders is facing financial challenges and is struggling to extinguish its debt, which board chairman Mgcini Nkolomi says is close to $1 million, while club chairman Peter Dube insists it's just above $500,000.
"While many resolutions have been endorsed by us today in terms of saving Highlanders, resolutions which among them will see members paying various amounts in monthly subscriptions, we must also remember that we have others who are not life members, but who fully rally behind this team. I want to suggest that we also approach them and sell this idea to them and I know most, if not all of them will buy into it. They are members of Highlanders FC," said Elkannah Dube.
Despite being poorly attended, Saturday's meeting was one of the most productive indabas and only time will tell if members will implement that gathering's resolutions.
Besides discussing financial aid for the team, members also agreed to meet quarterly and set the next meeting for September where a review of Saturday's resolution would be done.
The meeting was also attended by the club's benefactor and Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees, Tshinga Dube, who pledged a beast.
Life members met at the clubhouse on Saturday and agreed to contribute $20 monthly as part of the survival methods to save the 90-year-old club from collapse.
Highlanders is facing financial challenges and is struggling to extinguish its debt, which board chairman Mgcini Nkolomi says is close to $1 million, while club chairman Peter Dube insists it's just above $500,000.
"While many resolutions have been endorsed by us today in terms of saving Highlanders, resolutions which among them will see members paying various amounts in monthly subscriptions, we must also remember that we have others who are not life members, but who fully rally behind this team. I want to suggest that we also approach them and sell this idea to them and I know most, if not all of them will buy into it. They are members of Highlanders FC," said Elkannah Dube.
Despite being poorly attended, Saturday's meeting was one of the most productive indabas and only time will tell if members will implement that gathering's resolutions.
Besides discussing financial aid for the team, members also agreed to meet quarterly and set the next meeting for September where a review of Saturday's resolution would be done.
The meeting was also attended by the club's benefactor and Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees, Tshinga Dube, who pledged a beast.
Source - chronicle
