Georgia's Ambassador to Southern Africa Beka Dvali believes both Harare and Tbilisi can cooperate to develop sport between the two countries.  The ambassador paid a courtesy call yesterday on Minister of Sport Makhosini Hlongwane on Thursday. “Today I am here with the Minister of Sport because we believe that sport is one of the areas where we could find common ground and to start cooperation, to start dialogue. It is very important in every way for us. “Georgia is very prominent in different areas of sports and today with the Minister we discussed possibilities, how to boost our dialogue, interaction in this area. And our main approach and our common understating is that we should build up institutionalised kind of relationship in sports. “We will create a strong legal footing, legal basis for our different sectors of sport to interact and have more interaction between the two countries,” said Dvali. The two officials said some of the areas they are considering are rugby and wrestling, with the Georgian ambassador saying their success is based more on determination. “In Georgia actually rugby is a kind of ancient sport that Georgians played, it was called Lelo that’s why the nickname of Georgian team is Lelos. But for years it was kind of suppressed sport and I wouldn’t say for example in Georgia it is kind of elite sport. “And I think this is where we could share experiences, how Georgians result having kind of huge capacity like many countries have. How we managed to get in the top league kind of. “I think my main thinking here is determination. And of course Georgian government also puts in place these kind of new programmes to bring rugby to the villages, the places that are disadvantaged. A lot here depends on enthusiasm. This is what we observed in Georgia,” said Dvali.

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