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MUTARE Sports Club newly elected president Misheck Mugadza is a man on a mission with restoring the glory days of the club as a premier recreational facility as his top priority.
In an interview last Wednesday, Mugadza said there was need to preserve the country’s sports clubs for posterity.
MSC held its Annual General Meeting recently, which saw a new committee coming on board.
Elected chairman was Phillip Matiza, vice-chairman Mordecai Dube, secretary Nqobile Mthethwa, treasurer Luke Nyamangondo and two committee members James Mupfumi and David Dumba.
Mugadza said they would try coming up with reasonable membership subscription fees to cater for its diverse membership.
“Sports clubs are for the community and we are merely custodians that would have been entrusted to run them during our tenure.
“These are recreational centres for the people. If we do not take care of them no one will so let us preserve them.
“We hope to restore the club to its former glory and see several sporting disciplines being revived at the club like hockey and volleyball,” he said.
For out-door sports MSC has tennis, squash, rugby and cricket facilities while indoor games there are darts and pool. In most parts of the country sports clubs are collapsing and being turned into nightclubs, drifting from their fundamental purpose of promoting sport.
Mugadza said there was need for more awareness to the community about the existence of recreational sporting clubs and their purpose.
“These are not for the wealthy as the whites made us believe, but for all of us. That is why subscription fees should not be hefty,” he said.
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