His father, Douglas, was a sub-inspector in the Rhodesian police force—the
British South Africa Police—and later a deputy commissioner in the
Zimbabwe Republic Police from 1980. He was senior of
Peter Godwin in the school. As an all-rounder in 1970s
Rhodesia, Chingoka was the first Black Rhodesian cricketer to play at a high level, appearing in
List A games for the
South Africa African XI, which he captained in two matches in the
Gillette Cup competition in
1975-76 and
1976-77. His team lost both matches by large margins. After a time in
club cricket, Chingoka moved into administration, and in 1990, became Vice-President of the
Zimbabwe Cricket Union (since renamed
Zimbabwe Cricket); he was promoted to the position of President two years later. As such, he became a full voting member of the executive board of the
International Cricket Council (ICC). In October 2007, Chingoka, who was due to give evidence in
Darrell Hair's employment tribunal/racism controversy, was
refused entry to Britain. In February 2008, the-then UK
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, refused to guarantee that Chingoka would be allowed entry to attend a London meeting of the ICC until a publication of a report by accountants
KPMG on alleged corruption in Zimbabwean cricket. He was added to the
European Union's list of Zimbabweans subject to personal sanctions—a ban on travel to the EU and the freezing of any assets there—in July 2008, following the controversial
2008 presidential election, in which President
Robert Mugabe was re-elected amidst serious political violence. Later, in December 2008, he was banned from travelling to
Australia. He resigned as the chairman of
Zimbabwe Cricket on 23 July 2014. ==Death==