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Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Sports Reporter
FORMER Highlanders’ board member Jonathan Sayi Moyo, who died last Saturday, will be laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery this morning.

Moyo passed away at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo last Friday night after a short illness.

He had been admitted for post operation care following a knee operation three weeks ago.

Moyo’s son Dothan said his father underwent an operation on the knee three weeks ago, but his condition deteriorated ever since and was readmitted to the hospital last Thursday before passing away on Friday night.

“The late former Highlanders board vice chairman Mr Jonathan Sayi Moyo will be laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery tomorrow (today) at 11AM. The church Service will be held at Brethren-in-Christ Church, Fort Street and Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue at 8am,” wrote the club on its official Twitter account.

Moyo had been a member of the club for more than 50 years, and sat on the board for 11 years.

Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Raj Modi has also mourned the death of Moyo, whom he described as a great.

“May he rest in peace. As a Bosso fan and Zimbabwean, I am pained by Mr Jonathan Sayi Moyo’s death.

We have lost a great man,” said Modi. Moyo was born in Ntunte, Filabusi, under Chief Maduna and attended Wanezi Mission before proceeding to Mtshabezi where he did his teacher training.

He taught in Filabusi before moving to Harare in the 1960s where he worked for various entities that include the Ministry of Education, Speciss College and then joined the then Rhodesia Bank (Rhobank), which became Zimbank at independence in 1980.

Moyo also dabbled in politics and was a member of Zapu, leading some of the branches.

He is the father to famed radio personality Brenda Moyo.

He is survived by wife Gladys, three children, Brenda, Dothan and Elnora, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.