{"id":29230,"date":"2020-10-23T21:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2020-10-23T21:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:04","slug":"gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Takwara nearing a return to SA Premiership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Takwara is in South Africa awaiting clearance from his Zimbabwean club, Ngezi Platinum, to complete a move to top-flight side Chippa United.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Herald, the midfielder recently sneaked out of the country where he agreed on personal terms with the Chilli Boys.<\/p>\n<p>But Ngezi are demanding a fee from the Port Elizabeth-based side as they cannot release the player for free.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the publication, club secretary-general, Cloete Munjoma, said: \u201cFor starters, we did not clear Gerald (Takwara) to go to South Africa. He is our player, and we don\u2019t even know how he ended up in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is actually confusing how he ended up in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Chippa United have been in touch with us whereupon, they are asking us to clear the player to join them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is definitely no way we can stand in the player\u2019s way but, look, Gerald (Takwara) remains our player, and we have been honouring our contractual obligations, paying him his dues, just like all of our employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, we cannot let him go for free. He is our investment, and we have since told Chippa United to come up with a reasonable offer, but they haven\u2019t come back to us as yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe bought the player last year. He is still ours, and there is no way he can join another team for free. That doesn\u2019t make any business sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Takwara returned to Zimbabwe and joined Madamburo mid last year after he was released by the now-defunct Ajax Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Takwara is in South Africa awaiting clearance from his Zimbabwean club, Ngezi Platinum, to complete a move to top-flight side Chippa United. According to the Herald, the midfielder recently sneaked out of the country where he agreed on personal terms with the Chilli Boys. But Ngezi are demanding a fee from the Port Elizabeth-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-29230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gerald Takwara nearing a return to SA Premiership - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gerald Takwara is in South Africa awaiting clearance from his Zimbabwean club, Ngezi Platinum, to complete a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gerald Takwara nearing a return to SA Premiership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gerald Takwara is in South Africa awaiting clearance from his Zimbabwean club, Ngezi Platinum, to complete a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-23T19:42:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Gerald-Takwara-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"432\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gerald-takwara-nearing-a-return-to-sa-premiership\",\"name\":\"Gerald Takwara nearing a return to SA Premiership - 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