The coach of Zimbabwe women’s football team Shadreck Mlauzi will appear in court on Wednesday after being charged with sexual assault, police said.
Mlauzi was accused of unwanted sexual advances by an assistant coach on his staff during a southern African regional tournament and is still in custody.
The temporary head of the Zimbabwe Football Association said he will wait to hear from the police before deciding on Mlauzi’s future:
“We will allow the police to do their job, without prejudice. As the national association, we will follow the police’s lead,” Lincoln Mutasa, the leader of the federation’s interim governing body, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“All we can say for now is that everybody who went on that trip [to South Africa] signed a code of ethics certificate, and as an FA we are going through our own investigation. But on this one, we will be guided by the best qualified authority, who is the police in this instance.”
Police in Harare said Mlauzi will appear in court for a second time on Wednesday.
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