The Sunday Mail
By Fatima Bulla
3 March 2013
The Zimbabwe Boxing Board of Control yesterday held their inaugural meeting clearly highlighting their awareness of the daunting task lying ahead to lift the sport out of the doldrums.
Paul Nenjerama, chairing a new eight member board, said the main challenge was to lay down structures that will set the ball rolling as they seek to breathe in some oxygen into the game that had been suffocated by administrative boobs fraudulent medical reports. “Before this meeting I managed to meet with the (sports) minister (David Coltart) and highlighted our concern on the need for resources to be poured in our coffers.
“As such we have been directed to the director general of the Sports and Recreation Commission, Charles Nhemachena with whom we will discuss these issues. This will also enable us to establish a secretariat to run our day to day business. We need a solid foundation to be able to remain for generations to come even after our three years in office have lapsed,†Nenjerama said.
 Nenjerama said there is need for a database of promoters, managers, boxers, referees and medical staff to be drawn to ensure professional administration of the sport.
“We have also discussed the need to have an all stakeholders meeting and this Wednesday we will meet for further consultations on that. On our agenda we also looked at the need for a secretariat which will run the day to day business,†Nenjerama said.
The board has to build a somehow battered image with other boxing countries like Namibia and South Africa where some Zimbabwean boxers were sent without proper medical examination and had to be expelled just before matches.
The new board whose term ends on January 31 2016, includes former prominent boxer Alexander Kwangwari and promoters Lorraine Muringi and Ed Hammond.
Other members of the board are former SRC board member Tsitsi Muzuva, former national team doctor Farai Muchena, media practitioner Gilbert Munetsi and Charles Dzimba, the former general manager of the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa Zone VI.