Boost for Mat North Youth Games team Mthabisi Mlingo
Mthabisi Mlingo

Mthabisi Mlingo

Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Sports Reporter
South Africa-based Zimbabwean, Mthabisi Mlingo, has promised to provide T-shirts for athletes from Tsholotsho district that make the Matabeleland North Youth Games team.

Mlingo, from the Madlangombe area of Tsholotsho South, was responding to a call made by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) for corporates or individuals to adopt individual sport codes as a way of promoting sport and talent in the country.

He also runs an annual football tournament in the area.

“We heard a call by the Government for people to come on board and assist in the forthcoming Games and as someone who loves sport, I have decided to assist in my own small way. I don’t have to be in office or donate millions, but coming from Tsholotsho and eager to see my district make a mark in national sports, I am promising to provide T-shirts to athletes from my district that will make it into the provincial team and I hope they will be there. I know, of course, that the province will have a large pool of athletes, but I just thought of assisting those from my district and also challenge other people to do the same,” said Mlingo.

Meanwhile, a total of 53 venues have been identified to play host to the various sport codes.

Matabeleland North will host 20 of the 22 sport codes, including tennis, whose national leadership spiritedly tried to have it moved to Bulawayo on the basis of “courts not being enough and not up to standard in the whole of Matabeleland North”.

However, Megawatt Primary School and Hwange Tennis Courts have been deemed suitable to host tennis games.

Bulawayo province will only host the Under-18 and Under-23 hockey, cricket and swimming.

The Old Mutual Heath Streak Cricket Academy will play host to the Under-18 competition for both boys and girls, while Bulawayo Athletic Club will be home to the Under-23 ladies’ cricket and Busters Cricket Club stages the Under-23 men.

Bulawayo Swimming Pool will also be used for the two age groups’ competitions, while hockey will be held at the Khumalo Hockey Stadium.

According to the final competition venues list released by the SRC, athletics will be held at the Hwange Colliery Stadium, while Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in Victoria Falls will play host to the Under-18 basketball.

The Under-23 basketball will take place at Sports Pavillion, Coalfields Primary, Makwika Village and Don Bosco College in Hwange. Karatekas will also be based at Coalfields Primary, with Mosi-oa-Tunya the venue for chess, darts and handball.

Baobab and Chamabondo Primary schools in Victoria Falls, Coalfields and Megawatt Primary in Hwange as well as the Old Ground and Chakona Stadiums will be used for football.

Fatima High, Marist Brothers and Thomas Coulters Primary will host volleyball and table tennis, while Edmund Davies and Lwendulu Halls in Hwange play host to boxing and weightlifting.

Netball will be held at Nechibondo Primary in Empumalanga suburb, Coalfields, Thomas Coulter and Old Ground in Lwendulu.

1.2 Infantry will be the venue for shooting, with rowing being held at the Bubi Lupane Dam.

Victoria Falls Primary School will play host to rugby. — @skhumoyo2000

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