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to deliver it was off-duty.

Magistrate Ms Estere Chivasa was not at work to deliver the ruling and her colleague at Chitungwiza magistrates’ court, Mr Kudakwashe Jarabini, ended up remanding Rushwaya. Rushwaya is represented by Mr Charles Chinyama, who sent his other two colleagues who requested if the State could furnish them with the evidence of Zifa president Wellington Nyatanga.

“Your Worship, we want to apply for discharge,” they said. “If the court may furnish us with the evidence of the Zifa president Nyatanga to form part of our application.”
The charges emanate from soccer matches that the senior national soccer team played in different countries in Asia between 2007 and 2010.

Rushwaya is alleged to have arranged trips for the national soccer team to Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Oman, Jordan, Bulgaria, China, Thailand and Yemen without permission from her superiors.

She also argued that her arrest by ZAAC without the assistance of the police was in direct contravention of the powers bestowed upon the commission in Section 108 of the country’s Constitution.