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Benjani Mwaruwari's father dies
30 Mar 2015 at 07:13hrs | Views
FORMER Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari's father, Amos, has died. He was 70.
Amos died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals on Saturday after succumbing to a heart ailment.
His son Benjani had taken him for specialist treatment in South Africa and the United Kingdom but all was in vain.
Born in Karonga village in Malawi on May 4, 1945, Amos came to Zimbabwe in the early 1960s where he settled in the Headlands area before coming to Bulawayo in 1975. He worked for Datlabs until retirement in 1986.
"He was flown to South Africa for some treatment but there was no major improvement so we flew him to England where he was taken to some specialists but there was no change until we came back home," said a distraught Sithabile Mwaruwari, the late Amos's widow.
She described her late husband as a God fearing man who was also full of love for his family.
"Now that my partner is gone I don't know how I will live, I'm in so much pain," Sithabile said.
She said funeral arrangements were in progress and Benjani is expected to jet in from the UK tomorrow together with his wife.
Amos leaves behind his wife and five children. Mourners are gathered at house number 103 Percy Avenue, Hillside.
Source - chronicle
