Times Of Swaziland: NEW PLE EXECUTIVE MEETS ‘BOMBER’

NEW PLE EXECUTIVE MEETS ‘BOMBER’
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BY THEMBA ZWANE on 29/09/2020 01:17:00


MBABANE – For the first time in history, the newly-elected Premier League of
Eswatini (PLE) Executive Committee paid a courtesy call to Eswatini Football
Association (EFA) President Adam ‘Bomber’ Mthethwa.
Information gathered from highly-placed sources is to the effect that the
meeting took place at Sigwaca House last Friday, at 10:30am.
According to the sources, present during the meeting was the PLE Executive led
by its Chairman, Mark Carmichael, PLE Chief Operations Officer (COO) Pat
Vilakati, EFA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Frederick Mngomezulu and the
president.
meeting
EFA Marketing and Communications Officer, Muzi Radebe, confirmed the meeting
when drawn for comment yesterday.
He clarified that it was not actually a formal meeting, but a courtesy call
where the new PLE Executive Committee was to be formally introduced to the EFA
CEO.
“It was not a formal meeting, but a courtesy call meant for the newly-elected
committee to be formally introduced to the CEO,” said Radebe.
He said the president was also present on arrival of the committee members and
grabbed the opportunity to also be part of the meeting and to meet the members.
“If it was an official meeting, there would have been an agenda so it
wasn’t, it was only a courtesy call,” said Radebe.
Meanwhile, Vilakati added that the intention was to seek for guidance from the
EFA as a newly elected group for their term in office as they strived to develop
football in the country.
gratitude
“The president expressed gratitude for the new executive to deem it proper to
meet him first after the election and promised to assist where he could,” said
Vilakati.
He said they were well received and will continue to meet the other stakeholders
to whom they had already sent correspondences to state that they will be coming.
“When they meet these other PLE, stakeholders, they would then state what
their vision and plans were for the duration of their term in office,” said
the COO.
The media is among other stakeholders Vilakati said and they would meet in their
quest for transparency and progress.