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THE chairman of Barham Green Sports Club, Ali de Souza, says they will create a Wall of Fame soon to honour their most outstanding sports stars. Among those set to be inducted are the McKop brothers, Henry, Pernell and Tyrone and the late Shayne Khamal.
De Souza said they would be engaging members of the community and sports fraternity to come up with a list of outstanding personalities who deserve recognition.
“Barham Green has been associated with great sports personalities some of whom represented the province and country. We want to do away with the culture of speechifying at funerals when we never honoured the guys when they still lived.
“It might not be that big but symbolically it’s something that as a community we’ll do to appreciate our stars,” said De Souza.
Zimbabwe has lagged behind in this aspect. A lot of sport history has not been documented something Zifa Southern Region boss Musa Mandaza also alluded to at the Machache Meats regional football awards last week.
De Souza said as a club it was high time they updated the list of men and women that appear on their walls.
“On our walls we’ve great teams of the 1920s to the 1960s. Since then not much has been done in recognition of great basketball and football stars who came from this club, we want our immediate past stars like the late Shayne Khamal to be captured and remembered for generations to come,” he said.
A vibrant junior policy in football running under Cosmos FC produced the McKop brothers, Michael Indi and Khamal in the 1980s.
All three McKop brothers made it to the junior national teams with Henry rising to star for the Dream Team.
In volleyball there was Richard Bismark and basketball saw the likes of Craig Garnie, Ernie Noble and Ursula James emerge to hog national headlines from the BG Club.
“With this history behind us, how will our grandchildren know about the legacy of the club,” said De Souza on the sidelines of a luncheon hosted for the elderly and young children from John Smale by Upenyu Hove of Broadway Spar.
Hove said it was part of his company’s corporate social responsibility to help the needy in our society.
“We’re a Bulawayo company and where we can we’d like to give a bit of cheer to the community and what we’re doing today at BG Club we hope will cheer the elderly and young kids from John Smale,” said Hove.
De Souza said it was every citizen’s responsibility to help the less fortunate of society.
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