Peter Chingoka (2 March 1954 – 22 August 2019) was a

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administrator.

Career

His father, Douglas, was a sub-inspector in the Rhodesian police force—the British South Africa Police—and later a deputy commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police from 1980. As an all-rounder in 1970s

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, Chingoka was the first Black Rhodesian cricketer to play at a high level, appearing in

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games for the

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, which he captained in two matches in the Gillette Cup competition in 1975-76 and 1976-77. His team lost both matches by large margins. After a time in

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, Chingoka moved into administration and in 1990 became Vice-President of the

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(now renamed

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); he was promoted to the position of President two years later. As such he became a full voting member of the executive board of the

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(ICC). He was elected chairman of the

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(ACA) in 1998. In October 2007, Chingoka, who was due to give evidence in

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employment tribunal/racism controversy, was refused entry to Britain. In February 2008, the-then UK

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, refused to guarantee that Chingoka would be allowed entry to attend a London meeting of the ICC until a publication of a report by accountants

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on alleged corruption in Zimbabwean cricket. He was added to the

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's list of Zimbabweans subject to personal sanctions—a ban on travel to the EU and the freezing of any assets there—in July 2008, following the controversial 2008 presidential election, in which President

Robert Mugabe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...

was re-elected amidst serious political violence. Later, in December 2008, he was banned from travelling to

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.Mark Davis
"Zimbabwean cricket chiefs on sanctions list"
smh.com.au, December 27, 2008. He resigned as the chairman of Zimbabwe cricket on 23 July 2014.

Death

Chingoka died in August 2022.https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/former-zimbabwe-cricket-chairman-peter-chingoka-dies-1198357

References

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