LFA’s orderly AGM passes stern test

For the first time ever a gathering of members of the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association has orderly conducted its business without any form of aggression and bitter exchanges from the floor.

Of late, such gatherings of the LFA have been characterised by disruptions and bitter exchanges among the leadership factions that ran short of blows being exchanged on the floor.

Previously, such meetings would see accusations and counter-accusations and disruptions after disruptions that often led to the collapse of the gatherings, or the meetings being postponed due to their unruliness.

This time, a couple of points of order were raised but in what was described as a ‘mature and dignified’ manner befitting the dignity of the country’s oldest football body that was established in 1936.

LFA president Joe Seanego commended the members for what he labelled as ‘passing the test of character with distinctions. “We belong together, and this is the kind of amicable behaviour that we expect from grown-ups but that does not rule out any form of contestations on points of departure,” he told Alex News in an interview afterwards.

Various delegates also informally expressed their surprise at the orderliness of the AGM [annual general meeting] and said this could be a pointer to the ‘transparency and inclusiveness’ in the running of the association’s affairs.

“Each time we met previously, accusations of the misuse of the association’s funds would fly from all directions and it was by sheer luck that there was no blood on the floor,” said a delegate who preferred to remain anonymous.

Highly commended for the way he handled the AGM gathering was the secretary general of the LFA, Malvin Khumalo. “You passed with flying colours,” the delegates said in their congratulations and expressed the view that they did not expect the meeting to be over in such a short space of time and in such an orderly manner.