Sinikiwe Mpofu Cause of Death, Biography, Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Children
Pioneer of the Lady Chevrons Sinikiwe Mpofu passes away after her husband’s recent death.
What Happened to Sinikiwe Mpofu?
Sinikiwe Mpofu (Zimbabwe Ladies National team Assistant Coach) passed away in Zimbabwe at 9 am after she collapsed, she was 37 yrs old.
Sinikiwe was the wife of the late Shepherd Makunura (Zimbabwe National Team Fielding Coach at the time of his passing away) who passed away on the 15th of December 2022 aged 46 yrs old after a long illness.
Shepp was my childhood friend/cricket brother & will forever miss him – We played & talked a lot of cricket together from the early-mid 1980s whilst growing up in Zimbabwe.
Sinikiwe Mpofu Cause of Death
It is with great sadness and shock that Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) announces the sudden death of Zimbabwe Senior Women’s National Team Assistant Coach Sinikiwe Mpofu, less than a month after her husband, Shepherd Makunura, was laid to rest.
Mpofu, the former Zimbabwe international cricket player affectionately known as Sneeze, was pronounced dead on arrival at a medical facility after she collapsed at her home in Masvingo this Saturday morning. A post-mortem to determine the cause of her death was due to be carried out.
Who was Sinikiwe Mpofu?
Mpofu, born in Bulawayo on 21 February 1985, was a talented all-rounder who was part of the history-making team that represented Zimbabwe Women in their first-ever international cricket match in December 2006.
She started playing the game while she was still a student at Mpopoma High School and went on to feature for the provincial side Westerns.
In 2007, she joined Takashinga Cricket Club and also made it into the Northern team after she moved to Harare to pursue further education.
After ending her playing career, she ventured into coaching and scoring, becoming an integral part of ZC’s game development structures at provincial and national levels.
Mpofu has been part of the technical teams that have seen Zimbabwe Women dominating Africa, earning one-day international status and recently finishing just one win away from qualifying for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
Under her tutelage as Head Coach, Mountaineers Women won the inaugural Fifty50 Challenge – Zimbabwe’s provincial one-day championship for women – in the 2020/21 season. Last season, she led them to another final, finishing as runners-up in the Women’s T20 Cup.
Sinikiwe Mpofu Husband and Children
Sinikiwe Mpofu had two children with her husband Shepherd Makunura, a professional cricket coach, who died in December 2022 following a long illness.