OB van impounded in latest Zimbabwe cricket financial snag

Zimbabwe Cricket's mounting debt problems came to a head on Tuesday afternoon, when the deputy sheriff in Harare impounded its Outside Broadcast van, as well as vehicles used by managing director Wilfred Mukondiwa and selector Givemore Makoni. The vehicles were seized as a result of ZC's labour dispute with former employee Andrew Muzamhindo, who claims he is owed in excess of US$100,000.

Muzamhindo was an executive in ZC's commercial department for three years, helping to run their public relations and media departments, as well as securing sponsorship. He left the organisation in 2008, which was when an arbitration process began over money allegedly owed to him. The case went to the Labour Court, and ZC then appealed to the High Court, which ruled in Muzamhindo's favour, with the result that in January 2013 the deputy sheriff attached office equipment and vehicles belonging to ZC. A failed appeal to the Supreme Court and delays in locating all attached property culminated in the most recent seizure of ZC property.

"Justice always catches up with you, no matter how long it takes," Muzamhindo told the Daily News. "All I want is what's due to me. I don't have anything against ZC. It's unfortunate some people personalised the issue, they failed to separate between personal and business issues."