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New Cosafa CEO named

Posted: 2008-12-08 10:24

Long-serving Cosafa Secretary-General Ashford Mamelodi has stepped down.

The Botswana-born football administrator has served the council for almost a decade and will now concentrate on a job within Fifa as a Development Officer.

Announcing the development, Cosafa President Suket Patel said that since the secretary general stepped down, Sue Destombes, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer.

“I would like to tell you that Ashford Mamelodi is now our Honorary Secretary-General as he asked to step down. We are very happy with the work that he has done for the council and that is why we are honouring him for the good job,” Patel told KickOff.com.

He said that since they have opened full time offices in Johannesburg, Destombes will be based there.

“We have worked with Sue for a long time and we know what she is capable of doing in football for the region and that is why we have chosen her as our CEO. We know she works for football and has the love for the game. We need people like her in this job,” Patel said.

Mamelodi said he will miss the Council and the people he has been working with and wished them all the best.

In accordance with the wishes of the membership in June 2007, the Cosafa Executive was reduced from 14 members to seven, made up of the president, vice-president and five ordinary members.

Previously, the Executive was comprised of representatives of each member country, which created difficulties with regard to the decision-making process.

The new Executive Committee will meet for the first time at the CAF Congress in Nigeria, which takes place in February 2009.

The newly-elected executive committee is: Walter Manda (Malawi), Faizel Sidat (Mozambique), John Muinjo (Namibia), Timothy Shongwe (Swaziland) and Wellington Nyatanga (Zimbabwe).

The President was elected at an AGM in Gaborone in 2006 for a period of five years and the Vice President, Salemane Phafane from Lesotho was elected vice-president last year at the AGM in Mpumalanga.

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Mookamedi: 2008-12-08 10:38

Big up to you Mr Ash Mamelodi, you surely did tremendously well for this Region...your work is there for everyone to see.Botswana is facing a problem of Maladministration, go and help out big man..to the new Lady in the Host seat..keep it tight Sis

Gama : 2008-12-08 11:17

Mamelodi you are a disgrace to African soccer and i am glad to see the back of you. You personally presided over the theft of Malawi's chances on two occasions

COSAFA Senior cup: Malawi was ranked higher than Botswana and you corruptly seeded Botswana forcing Malawi to go through expensive preliminaries. Shame on you.

Cosafa Under 20 tournament last week: Malawi finished ahead of Zimbabwe with a superior goal difference and should have gone on to face Amajita: You somehow forced the issue to be decided by the toss of a coin. Zimbabwe won the coin toss (surprise surprise) and went into the semi finals to loose to SA. SA are now Cosafa champs.

Got the steppin Mamelodi, you have caused more harm than you can imagine. I pray that Botswana see the the danger in your way of doing things and do not appoint you to anything. What you did was nothing short of corrupt.
BYE!!!

Mookamedi: 2008-12-08 11:51

owai!this Bitter Gama, where does he come from!!you're a disgrace to your nation.dont you know that there is a panel of officials who handles this issues..Secretary General has no power whatsoever to rule over anything, on top of that there the Cosafa President who Heads Cosafa.Get away with your uninformed and pathetic comments & lies

Bigman: 2008-12-08 13:12

Gama I saw a Malawian name the above mentioned list...why din't he/she/it influence the decision to go Malawi's way....because some decisions lies with ohter people but not others....just like u are wrongfully acusing Mr. dunga Mamelodi....guyz read a lot of footbal magazines...for own knowledge of soccer... u are a disgrace to everyone associated with u in any way...nx!

Gama : 2008-12-08 17:01

Mookamedi and Big Boy

Hear this gentlemen. The Secretary general is the highest authority constitutionally in COSAFA. The organising committee which is susually formed by the vice president and other executives is constituted under regulations that are drafted and co signed by the Secretary General and the president. So if there is ever any contention over any issue or uncertainty, a phonecall to the Secretary General is the deciding vote. That is the way it is supposed to work period. The organising committee only has jurisdiction over small inconsequential things that are not covered in the rules. So when it was time to decide what the seeds would be, Malawi was ranked higher that botswana and everyone, including members of the COSAFA executive assumed malawi would be seeded (and gladly expressed that sentiment in the press). A special meeting was called and presided over by Mamelodi where it was decided to uses old rankings. Malawian representatives expressed their disapproval at that meeting and in other fora but to no avail. Favouritism!!! I cant see any other explanation can you? Please furnish one if you do...

The second incident. The COSAFA executive has already issued an apology. The apology came from Cosafa President Seketu Patel and other executive member through FAM president Walter Nyamilandu. So apparently even they have seen the folly of their ways. So whose decision was that? well whoever's it was, the buck stops with Mamelodi. If there were no clear provisions or whatever the case.. he's responsible. He drafted the rules and he's the final call on the execution. Do you perhaps have another scapegoat?
So the bottom line is, this guy, either delibarately or through ineptitude, screwed Malawi out of their FAIR chance to progress in their tournaments. Whichever it is, I have a right to criticize. So yes i know what i'm talking about, and why dont you address the ISSUES and FACTS instead of writing me off as bitter and uninformed. Clearly neither of you know what you're saying. Get YOUR facts straight before you step to me with that nonsense...'tsek!!!! We still fail to think critically and we'll never progress like that.

Mookamedi: 2008-12-09 09:17

hey wena dont write e bible lapha...talking rubbish like that,you're assuming or atleast you heared rumours that thing are handled like that, well let me tell you, you have been mislead..obviously you're still a kid, you will learn...you time will come to indulge in the corporate world.