Career
He played as a centre. He was nicknamed "The Black Diamond". Tsimba was the first black player to represent his country.
He had 5 caps for Zimbabwe, scoring 3 tries, 12 points in aggregate.
All his caps came at the 1987 Rugby World Cup, where he played in two games, scoring two tries in the 21-20 loss to Romania, at 23 March 1987, in Auckland, and at the 1991 Rugby World Cup, where he was used in all the three games, scoring a try in the 52-8 loss to Japan, at 14 October 1991, in Belfast. He died in a car accident, aged only 34 years old.
On 25 October 2012, he was posthumously inducted into the Institutional Review Board Hall of Fame. His living younger brother and fellow Zimbabwe international Kennedy Tsimba was inducted alongside him.