DHL brings rugby party to Zimbabwe

DHL International Zimbabwe managing director, Jeff Phiri

IT is one week left to the exciting ‘Big Screen Party’of the Rugby World Cup match final happening on the October 31 2015. The party is being co hosted by DHL and Toshiba, official sponsors of the Rugby World Cup Tournament.

The exciting event will happen at the Country Club in Highlands. Kick off and screening of the match will be at 1600 hrs. However, all are encouraged to be in the premises by 1400 hrs. Numerous pre game activities will await Zimbabwean rugby lovers. Pre game activities are promising to be as scintillating as the match if not more! One of the games will have a winner drive away with a brand new vehicle!

The event has been designed with all age groups in mind and will be family friendly. Many prizes will be up for grabs ranging from branded items provided by DHL to hi tech devices provided by Toshiba.

This party is the first of its kind in Zimbabwe and not one to be missed.

A ticket purchase is an automatic entry into a draw for the numerous prizes up for grabs. Organisers DHL and Toshiba have gone to great pains to ensure that there is more than one way to win at this unique event.

Tickets are available at www.webtickets.co.zw

South Africa aim to recreate spirit of 1995 with jog through London

South Africa’s 1995 World Cup-winning team have invited Londoners to join them on a two-mile jog before Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in a bid to replicate their success from 20 years ago.

The Springboks face the All Blacks at Twickenham in a repeat of the final at Ellis Park, with New Zealand once again heavy favourites to book their place in next week’s final. But in an attempt to recreate the feelgood factor which surrounded the famous victory, the 1995 captain Francois Pienaar and the rest of his team-mates will take to the streets of central London hours before kick off.

“On the morning of the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, they famously ran in Sandton. Twenty years later, the world champion Springboks are running again … through the streets of London,” read a statement from South African Rugby.
“All are welcome to join the 1995 Springboks squad and jog for two miles from Trafalgar Square and back. Meet outside the National Gallery at 07h30 on Saturday 24 October, 2015.”

The Springboks captain Francois Pienaar receives the Rugby World Cup trophy from president Nelson Mandela in 1995. Photograph: Philip Littleton/AFP/Getty Images

After upsetting the odds against Jonah Lomu and co thanks to Joel Stransky’s drop kick in extra time, Pienaar was handed the trophy by Nelson Mandela less than a year after he had been elected as South Africa’s first black president. The story featured in John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy, which was later transformed into the feature film Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. -theguardian.com