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Yanga SC visit former President Nyerere’s family ahead of Biashara United showdown

Record Mainland Premier League champions Young Africans (Yanga SC) paid a courtesy call to the family of the former Tanzania President Julius Nyerere.

Yanga were on their way to Musoma where they will be hosted by Biashara United for the eighth game of the league season, and had to make a stop-over and visit the late President’s family in their rural home.

The visit also saw the club’s chairman and GSM’s Hersi Said gave Nyerere’s wife, Mama Maria, a club jersey.

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“On our way to Musoma, our players got a rare chance to visit the home of the first President of the Republic of Tanzania, the late Julius Nyerere at Butiama,” the club announced on their Facebook page.