Richard Tsimba, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Zimbabwean rugby union player
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Place of Birth: Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe
About Richard Tsimba
- Richard Utete Tsimba (Salisbury, Rhodesia, 9 July 1965 – 30 April 2000) was a Zimbabwean rugby union player.
- He played as a centre.
- He was nicknamed "The Black Diamond". Tsimba was the first black player to represent his country.
- He had 5 caps for Zimbabwe, scoring 3 tries, 12 points in aggregate.
- All his caps came at the 1987 Rugby World Cup, where he played in two games, scoring two tries in the 21-20 loss to Romania, at 23 March 1987, in Auckland, and at the 1991 Rugby World Cup, where he was used in all the three games, scoring a try in the 52-8 loss to Japan, at 14 October 1991, in Belfast. He died in a car accident, aged only 34 years old. On 25 October 2012, he was posthumously inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame; his living younger brother and fellow Zimbabwe international Kennedy Tsimba was inducted alongside him.
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