Tatenda Maturure

Tatenda Maturure
No. 21 – Mercenaries
Position	Shooting guard
League	Manicaland Basketball Association
Personal information
Born	14 August 1988 (age 36); Harare, Zimbabwe
Listed height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Career history
0	Harare City Hornets
2018	Soweto Panthers
2019	Mercenaries
Career highlights and awards
	BNL Most Valuable Player (2018); BNL champion (2018);

Tatenda Paul Maturure (born 14 August 1988) is a Zimbabwean professional basketball player for Mercenaries of the Manicaland Basketball Association (MBA).

Club career

Maturure has spent a large part of his career with the Harare City Hornets in Zimbabwe.^[1] He has also played for Raiders and JBC.

In 2018, he joined the Soweto Panthers of the Basketball National League in South Africa and was named the league's most valuable player (MVP) after winning a championship.^[2]

In 2021, Maturure was named the MVP of the Decade by the Basketball Union of Zimbabwe (ZUB).^[3]

National team career

Maturure plays for the Zimbabwean national team. He was one of the team's top scorers at AfroBasket 2015.^[4]

References

^ Kusema, Tinashe (27 August 2017). "Dummy works hard, plays harder". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^ "A surreal experience with the Panthers". The Sunday Mail. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^ Chronicle, The. "Basketball players of the decade named". The Chronicle. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
^ "Zim lose to Mozambique". The Herald. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2019.