fullname death_date birth_place article_title position birth_date nickname currentclub
richard utete tsimba 30 april 2000 salisbury , rhodesia richard tsimba
 centre 9 july 1965 the black diamond --
richard tsimba

richard utete tsimba -lrb- salisbury , rhodesia , 9 july 1965-30 april 2000 -rrb- was a zimbabwean rugby union player .
he played as a centre .
he was nicknamed `` the black diamond '' .
tsimba was the first black player to represent his country .
he had 5 caps for zimbabwe , scoring 3 tries , 12 points in aggregate .
all his caps came at the 1987 rugby world cup , where he played in two games , scoring two tries in the 21-20 loss to romania , at 23 march 1987 , in auckland , and at the 1991 rugby world cup , where he was used in all the three games , scoring a try in the 52-8 loss to japan , at 14 october 1991 , in belfast .
he died in a car accident , aged only 34 years old .
on 25 october 2012 , he was posthumously inducted into the irb hall of fame ; his living younger brother and fellow zimbabwe international kennedy tsimba was inducted alongside him .
