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Faith Mutema: Sports Reporter

The Harare Province Rugby Association will this weekend hold their bi-annual general meeting to select a new board at Prince Edward School. This comes as a result of the chairman and his vice’s term of office having elapsed in March this year.The bi-annual meeting is scheduled for 10am on Saturday. The province’s chairman Tunga Mashungu from Old Hararians and his deputy Harare Sports Club’s Blessing Chitaure are said to have resigned earlier this year, leaving the board of the remaining five members to be dissolved.

Harare Province’s board member, Rodger Woodward, confirmed that their meeting was on this Saturday and said: “The decision by the board’s leaders to retire left a huge gap and this made it difficult for the administrators to function properly and (we) later resolved to dissolve the secretariat.

“The main nominations for the board chairman and his deputy’s positions are going to be revealed in the meeting we are holding this Saturday,” said Woodward.

Meanwhile, Harare Province are currently preparing for the Under- 21 League, which is set to begin in January next year. The league has 14 teams that are going to be separated into two groups. Woodward said they are trying to expand the league so that they look for new talent for the Under-21 age-group.

“We are seeing great potential in our young players and we want to create more talent to support our teams.

“The Harare Province champions Old Georgians recently represented Zimbabwe in the Gold Cup Tournament in South Africa and they played very well.

“They played four games and won two of those but although they didn’t make it to the quarter-finals, they showed great talent, so we are recruiting as many players as we can so that we get more gifted players,” said Woodward.