Africa: Time for Issa Hayatou to Go

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Phillip Chiyangwa might have his own faults but the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president has won a lot of admirers in African football after taking the long-serving Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou head on.

Hayatou has been at the helm of African football for the past 28 years and never at any one time has an African football association leader been bold enough to come out in the open to oppose the Cameroonian's leadership in the manner that Chiyangwa has done.

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