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The legal battle between the Polokwane municipality and Marumo Gallants will be now heard on Thursday, after the municipality challenged Gallants’ decision to move their game against Kaizer Chiefs to the Royal Bafokeng Stadium.
The municipality took the matter to court after Gallants chose not to honour the fixture at the Peter Mokaba Stadium, which they feel is a breach of contract by Gallants, who have an agreement to play all their fixtures at the Polokwane Stadium.
iDiski Times journalist Lethabo Kganyago spoke to Mantlako Sebaka, the sport and recreation manager at Polokwane local municipality on, after the initial court hearing set for Wednesday, was rescheduled for tomorrow.
“Well, the matter was set down for for today between Marumo Gallants and Polokwane municipality at the court, and the judge stood the matter down for tomorrow, which is the eighth of September for 14h00, so that Marumo Gallants can file their answering affidavit. So the matter would simply continue tomorrow at 14h00,” Sebaka explained.
“Polokwane municipality has got an event hosting partnership agreement with Marumo Gallants, so why we are here precisely is because according to our reading of the situation, Marumo Gallants has repudiated, or has breached the terms of our contract by unilaterally taking the match, which was meant to be played at the New Peter Mokaba stadium and taking that match to Royal Bafokeng Stadium on the 11th of September 2022.”
“Well, a contract is a contract. No one divorces his wife, or her husband, without informing the husband or without telling the husband or giving the husband notice that I’m divorcing you. Even if it’s for half a day, or the whole day, or for the entire lifetime. You don’t do that. Because you just have to notify your husband that look, I think I want to divorce you. So we didn’t get that, only to get it somewhere else that our partner wants to divorce in this case, or has decided that they want to take a day off from being our partners. Whereas we have you a partnership for the entire three years.”