{"id":40966,"date":"2025-11-07T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=40966"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:50:14","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncas-upholds-fifa-ruling-on-mafu-case-with-ngezi-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncas-upholds-fifa-ruling-on-mafu-case-with-ngezi-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS upholds FIFA ruling on Mafu case with Ngezi Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-138534\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p>\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"397\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CAS-upholds-FIFA-ruling-on-Mafu-case-with-Ngezi-Platinum.jpg?resize=397%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"object-contain h-46 w-full rounded-lg  md:rounded-none md:rounded-lg wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bongani-Mafu.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bongani-Mafu.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bongani-Mafu.jpg?resize=397%2C264&amp;ssl=1 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content custom-text-styles\">\n<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld FIFA\u2019s ruling that Ngezi Platinum must pay former assistant coach Bongani Mafu US$196,750 for unfair dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Mafu signed with Ngezi Platinum in March 2022 on a 4 year deal but was dismissed in July 2022 after just for months into the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The coach signed the deal and was set to receive:<\/p>\n<p><strong>.<\/strong> Sign-on fee: USD 4,800 \u201cfor the duration of the Contract and shall be paid as a once<br \/>of instalment per season\u201d;<br \/>\u2022 Monthly salary: USD 3,200 before the 30th day of every month;<br \/>\u2022 Housing: USD 150 per month;<br \/>\u2022 Transport: \u201cwhere transport is not provided, the club will pay an advised amount of<br \/>transport allowance of USD 30\u201d;<br \/>\u2022 Winning bonus: USD 480 per match; and<br \/>\u2022 Draw bonus: 50% of the win bonus for away games only.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, subject to Addendums A and B of the Contract, the Appellant and the coach also agreed on the following performance incentives for the 2022 season only:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 League Champions: 200% of one month\u2019s salary;<br \/>\u2022 Top 2 in League: 50% of one month\u2019s salary;<br \/>\u2022 For all cup competitions: 2.5% of total prize money won by the club (\u201c50% shall go<br \/>to the club and the remaining 50%, net of all expenses for participation in the CUP,<br \/>shall be the Team\u2019s Share which will be shared amongst the team (players and technical<br \/>staff) as follows: The First Assistant Coach shall receive 5% of the Team\u2019s Share.\u201d);<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Benjani Mwaruwari also has a similar case with Ngezi Platinum and the club has been ordered to pay US $600,000 for unfair dismissal as well.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \n\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in Local<\/span><span class=\"tags-links\">Tagged Bongani Mafu, Ngezi Platinum Stars<\/span>\t<\/footer>\n\n -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#CAS #upholds #FIFA #ruling #Mafu #case #Ngezi #Platinum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld FIFA\u2019s ruling that Ngezi Platinum must pay former assistant coach Bongani Mafu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9189,52,286,9190,978,228,607,2876],"class_list":["post-40966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-cas","tag-case","tag-fifa","tag-mafu","tag-ngezi","tag-platinum","tag-ruling","tag-upholds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40968,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966\/revisions\/40968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}