Fifa bans former Zifa official from football for life

Former Zifa programmes officer, Jonathan Musavengana, who was implicated in the Asiagate and Limpopogate scandals, becomes the first Zimbabwean to be banned, from all football-related activities around the world for life by Fifa after he was found guilty of bribery and corruption.

The ban comes four months after a Fifa Ethics Committee’s Investigatory Chamber recommended that Musavangena and two other officials from South Africa and Togo, including the former South African Football Association president Kirsten Nematandani, should be sanctioned. The bans are effective as of 8 December 2016.