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The meeting will be held at the ZVA offices in Harare on Saturday with the old and new members in attendance.

Fredrick Ndlovu, who retained his position as the national association’s president, leads the new executive and he said they are going to discuss several issues pertaining to the sport.

“The first item on the programme is the hand over take over where the new members will be introduced to the executive because there are some who were newly elected and some who retained their posts.

“The second issue is the clarification of roles and duties for each member.

“We are also going to discuss the 2013 calendar of events and the Great Zimbabwe Talent Identification programme,” said Ndlovu.

Another major issue to be discussed is the participation of the youth and junior teams in the continental championships scheduled for different countries.

The first competition, the Youth Boys championships, are set to run from 20 January to 1 February in Algeria while the Junior Men championships will start on 28 February to 10 March in Tunisia.

The Junior Women championships will be in Nigeria from 11 to 20 March to and the Junior women will be staged in Egypt from 23 March to 1 April.

The top two winners in these categories will progress to the World Championships to be held later this year.

However, for Zimbabwe, it remains to be seen if they will be able to send the teams having automatically qualified to compete at these events after the Zone Six championships that were supposed to act as qualifiers for the continental competitions were cancelled.

Most member countries did not confirm their participation in the event on the zonal competition.

Only South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi, who were supposed to host the event had confirmed and they were then allowed to progress to the next stage.

But it seems for local teams it may be just another chance going down the drain, as the national association is yet to map the way forward to raise funds for the trips.

Ndlovu said they were working on the possibility of sending a team but with the first tournament’s dates fast approaching it was going to be difficult.

“We are working on the possibility of sending teams. Malawi was cheaper.

“The cost of going to Malawi with four teams is now the cost of taking one team to each competition.

“When you are travelling you don’t just go there to be tourists, so we have to assess the teams according to their performance because the idea is to go there and win,” said Ndlovu.

He said the late announcement of the dates for the continental tournaments has also affected their preparations.