The clubs chief executive officer, George Comitis, told The Zimbabwean on Sunday the former Zimbabwe youth international was yet to get a permit alongside Guinea teenager, Seydouba Soumah. We are trying to register him and the only hurdle that we are facing at the moment is with regards to his work permit. We are struggling to get that done, along with the paperwork of new signing Willard Katsande, he said from Cape Town.
South Africas Department of Home Affairs has previously come under fire for taking time to process documents for coaches and players. Former Zimbabwe striker, Alois Bunjira, from 2006 spent more than a year on the sidelines after the department could not issue him with permanent residency papers following his move from Wits University to Jomo Cosmos.
The South African Football Association also were fined in 2007 after it emerged ex-Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Pareirra worked for weeks without a permit following delays by Home Affairs in issuing one. Katsande joined Ajax last month in a move that was facilitated by former Zimbabwe winger Edzai Kasinauyo.
He has previously starred for Frontier Steel and Feruka in the lower tiers of Zimbabwean football and for Highway in the Premier Soccer League. At Ajax, he joins countrymen Kama Billiat and Tafadzwa Rusike and Wilfred Mugeyy, who is an assistant coach with the club.
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