Archrivals clash fever grips Dar
By Burton Brown

Dar es Salaam soccer giants Simba and Young Africans meet this Saturday at the National Stadium in the Super Eight stage of Vodacom Premier League.
Although the match received less attention compared to the past, it will be the Clubs’ first league encounter of this season, with both teams boasting of many new faces recruited from in and outside Tanzania.
Simba hope to extend their winning form after a laborious victory over Prisons of Mbeya in a memorable encounter last weekend. Simba ended Prisons’ unbeaten run since the League kicked off three months ago.
Young Africans seemed much a rejuvenated side after sacking their former coach, Congolese Polycarp Bonghanya and replacing him with Sylersaid Mziray. Mziray also earned the Club a dramatic win over the diehards Moro United last Sunday.
Congolese international stars Katalay, Omar Chan’ga and Abubakar Ntiro expect to lead Young Africans’ striking force while Ulimboka Mwakingwe and Shaaban Kasiga will be the deadliest duo in the Simba’s forward line.
Besides the Dar es Salaam giants, other teams in the Super Eight stage include Mtibwa Sugar, Prisons, Police Dodoma, AFC Arusha, Moro United and Kahama United of Shinyanga.

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‘Snake Boy’ to take on Egyptian boxer
By Joyce Macha

Former world champion Rashid Matumla ‘Snake Boy’ is set to face Egyptian boxer Ahmed Mustafa in a non title bout to be held at Zamalek Club in mid August.
According to Emanuel Mlundwa, the president of Pugilist Syndicate of Tanzania, Matumla was expected to leave for Cairo at the end of this week accompanying his father Ally Matumla, who was also a successful boxer in the seventies.
Also in the trip will be Mlundwa, who has been picked one of the referees of the World Boxing Empire (WBE).
Explaining further, Mlundwa said Lowa Boxing Promotion Section and Egyptian Box organised the ten-round light middleweight bout.
Matumla has in recent years fought three bouts against Francis Cheka, Joseph Njoka Ngandu and Kennedy Oyolo.
Meanwhile, his younger brother Mbwana Matumla is also reported to be in intensive preparation for Thailand, where he will face a local boxer.
According to Mlundwa, the name of his opponent was not yet disclosed, though all arrangements for the 12-round super fly weight bout are complete.

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Pagal leads 2004 seeding points
By Express Reporter

Davinder Sahota Pagal is 111 points clear of his closest rival Saleh Balhabou in the seeding point list of 2004 after the fifth National Rally Championship (NRC) last month.
Pagal, who cruises Range Rover, has so far collected 712 points after adding 80 points from the General Tyre Rally July 18 and 19 as opposed to 601 collected by Saleh Balhabou of Morogoro.
The seeding point sheet released by the Rally Commission of Tanzania, shows Omar Bakhressa is third with 565 points after the homologation advantage giving him full 80 points.
With 248 points is Samer Nahdi Shanto from Morogoro, who takes fourth position, beating the fifth-placed Abdulrahaman Simba with 10 points. Simba has bagged 238 points after adding 40 points in the fifth National Rally. Others in the top ten list include Kirit Pandya 235 (points), Talal Islam Saleh (218 points) and Ahmed Huwel (181 points).
Navraj Hans, who has pocketed 180 points, is 30 points clear of Pano Calavria, who is tenth overall in the 2004 seeding list.
Besides his overall top position in the seeding points, Pagal also leads the chase for the overall winner position for this year with 208 points, again followed by Balhabou at 168 points and Bakhressa at 140 points.
Kirit is fourth with 88 points, followed by Talal Islam and Ahmed Huwel with 80 each and Nahdi Shanto, who has so far bagged 73 points.
Meanwhile, the officials from Rally Commission of Tanzania left for Rwanda yesterday to officiate the country’s edition of African Rally Championship scheduled for a flag off this weekend in Kigali.
Arif Ahmed, the Convenor of Rally Comission and his Secretary Meenaz Ahmed, who will be the chief of Stewards won the call soon after staging a successful event of African Championhip two weeks ago.
While in Rwanda, Arif Ahmed will also discuss with the delegates of the world’s motor sports body(FIA) about the date of next African Rally championship to be staged in Tanzania in 2005.
“I think I will make sure we have good date which will fit our Tanzanian sporting season. January and February sound the best seasons for this kind of rally,” he said.
Both Arif and Meenaz will be back August 10 being one day after the end of Kigali International Rally.

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Tanzania hammered in cricket
By Express Reporter

Tanzania lost to Uganda by 9 wickets in their opening match of African Cricket Championship match, held over the weekend in Lusaka, Zambia.
Ugandans were much superior to Tanzanians as they restricted the latter to a measly 69 runs all out.
By winning their match, Uganda made a great stride in their bid to qualify for the Mini-World Cup finals.
Reports from Lusaka said young player Patrick Ochan was the man of the match after claiming a hat trick for 11 in 10 overs.
Abhik Patwa, Benson Mwita and Hamisi Juma failed to show their usual strength and all collapsed easily.
Benjamin Musoke, who has been disappointing, was still not at his best as he opened with 10 runs, followed by Nehal Bibodi who hit 22 runs, Joel Olweny 25 runs and Junior Kwebihiiha 7 runs.

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TBL backs police force games
By Burton Brown

The Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) has donated sporting gear and a cheque of Tsh.2.5 million to the Tanzania Police Force for the Inter-Police Forces games, currently underway in Dar es Salaam.
The Police Force Games began last week at the Police College Ground, Kurasini, featuring various police teams from all over Tanzania.
TBL’s Safari brand manager Hellen Sweya presented the gear and cheque to the sports officer of the police force, Richard Ngowi. The donated gear includes pairs of football and netball kits.
The games include disciplines such as men and women’s soccer, netball, pool and tug of war.
The Police Force is leading the Tanzanian sports scene having many teams at the top in soccer, boxing, athletics, netball and handball.

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Cargo Stars golf tourney this weekend
By Express Reporter

The Cargo Stars golf tournament tees off this weekend at the Morogoro Golf Course, taking aboard golfers from six regions.
The 36-hole tournament has attracted golfers from Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club, Moshi TPC, Moshi Gymkhana Club, Arusha, Mufindi and hosts Morogoro, according to the Chairman of Tanzania golf Union (TGU), General Gideon Sayore.
The organisers told The Express that the strokeplay system would judge the best performers of the event, which has been sponsored by Cargo Stars for several years now.
“It is an open tournament under Tanzania Golf Union, allowing players from all golf clubs in the country,” said Vivianne Mwaulambo, a spokesperson of Cargo Stars.
Tanzania’s top seeded players, Stanley Sanga of Dar es Salaam, Rajab Iddi, Adam Mohamed and Emanuel Juma of Morogoro and Ollais Mollel from Arusha will be the hottest contenders for this year’s title.
Emanuel Juma is the defending champion after ending the long reign of his team mate Adam Mohamed.
Premier Frederick Sumaye will be the chief guest at the prize-giving ceremony and will present trophies to winners in various categories - the overall winners, net winners and those who managed longest drives.

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Dar youths taste success in U17 tourney
By Express Reporter

The inaugural Under 17 East and Central African soccer tournament continued to rock Arusha residents as Wakati Ujao of Dar es Salaam scored a sweet 1-0 win over United Youth on Monday.
The last-minute goal by Juma Kisungura gave Dar es Salaam’s youth the much sought win at Sheikh Amri Memorial Stadium in Arusha.
Kisungura scored the lone goal in the 74th minute that silenced the hosts completely. Wakati Ujao, one of the exemplary youth teams, is now under International Bank of Malaysia (T) Limited, who took over the team from Belgian-born trainer Ron Mintjens.
Also in the same tournament, Eagle Rangers of Tanga found themselves losing 0-1 at the hands of Enyuata of Arusha in an exciting match held at the same venue.
Goodluck Peter scored barely 15 minutes to the final whistle with a powerful volley that beat custodian Simon Tupa.

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Indian folk troupe to entertain Dar
By Tazzie Tarzan

An Indian folk dance troupe will perform tomorrow at the Lohana Mahajan Hall at Kisutu Street, opening its six-day Tanzania tour that will last until August 9.
Sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the troupe’s second performance will on Saturday be at the same venue.
According to a press release by the Indian High Commission, the Gujarati folk troupe is a group of 11 members from Kedar Art Research Centre (KARC), Baroda, under its Director Vimla Ashok Pandit.
The troupe will perform its last concert on August 9 at the Mahajan Hall, which the organisers said would have additional flavour to enthrall the Tanzanian audience.
Gujarat is a state in India from where more than 90 percent of Tanzanians with Indian ancestry hail from.
Sidi Goma, who visited Tanzania during the 2003 edition of Zanzibar Film Festival(ZIFF) also verified the close link of Gujarat with Tanzania.

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FIFA sports centre ready for launch
By Burton Brown

Tanzania’s Under 17 national soccer team, Serengeti Boys, will officially launch the new FIFA-sponsored sports centre, recently finished at Ilala, Dar es Salaam.
Built inside the Karume Memorial Stadium, the centre is part of the GOAL Project funded by Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA).
The Secretary General of FAT, Michael Wambura, told The Express that the centre was near completion and the Under 17 team would be the first to use it as a residential camp ahead of their match against Zambia.
Serengeti Boys meet Zambia in the second round of the African Youth Championship tie in November 2004.

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Stage set for Kili Music Awards
By Burton Brown

The winners of the 2003 edition of Kilimanjaro Music Awards will be known tomorrow when the final stage of the best music contest takes place at Karimjee Hall in Dar es Salaam.
Sponsored by the Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL), the final stage will award winners in various music categories played by Tanzanian artistes.
Those expected to get awards are the best performers of folk, taarab, Bongo flavour, and Gospel music, who will also perform some of their numbers on the stage.
Sauda Kilumanga, one of the officials of TBL, said a similar event would take place at the Leaders Club ground in Dar es Salaam August 8 to enable the majority of City residents attend the show.
Like in the past, this year’s event will also award the winners both cash and trophies with the top prizes reaching up to Tsh. 900,000.

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Kenyan drivers eye Sea Cliff Rally title
By Express Reporter

The competition posed by Kenya’s top notch drivers to their Tanzanian counterparts has heated up the Sea Cliff Rally that flags off in Arusha this Saturday.
Dave Macharia, one of the Kenyans in the organising committee, named Azhar Anwar, Peter Ngunjiri, and Assad Khan as among the best Kenyan drivers to take part in the Arusha rally.
Macharia said the Kenyan drivers would compete in eight homologated cars and one group S car. On the other hand, six cars under went inspection for homologation in readiness for the Sea Cliff rally this weekend.
Meanwhile, the Arusha Motor Sports Club (AMSC) has released the route to be used by drivers in the Nane Nane Sea Cliff Rally.
According to AMSC chairman Walter Maeda, cars will start at Mount Meru Hotel to Sombetini and finish at Olokii, USA River where the Service Park (Parc Ferme) would be situated.

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