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Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter
FOLLOWING the questionable delay to the staging of their elective general meeting early this year, the Zimbabwe Karate Union are now looking at holding polls for a new executive next month.

The ZKU should have held their annual meeting, at which a new management was also expected to be elected on a two-year mandate, at the start of the year. But Paul Danisa’s leadership have been dragging their feet for several months. Interestingly, the ZKU have escaped censure from the Sport and Recreation Commission amid revelations that the supreme sports body have been putting more of their energies in battling the ZIFA leadership.

Danisa took over power after Joe Rugwete stepped down last year mid-way through his term of office.

ZKU secretary-general, Steven Charandura, said yesterday they were now targeting to have the general meeting by mid-June.

“It’s an elective meeting, it’s an election for new board members. According to the constitution, it’s a two-tier executive system, we have one president then two vice-presidents, one for semi-contact and the other one for full contact,” said Charandura.

“Our constitution does not give a date as when to have the meeting. What we have is, it says after two years of an elective meeting, of course we have our annual general meeting every year.

“So it does not provide a specific date . . . but because annual returns from SRC we usually submit in March, so you find normally we have the annual general meeting before March. People have fear or may want to trigger uncertainty in people to say the executive does not want to have elections.

That is not the case. We want to have the elective general meeting that brings results that ensure the sport goes forward or there is continuity. So we need to really look at grey areas.’’