The ex-Buffaloes player was 38.
Reports suggest he had a spectacular fallout with his wife
over infidelity issues.
Details of how he discovered his wife’s extra-marital
affair are still sketchy.
His death comes just weeks after Boss Pango, the Ximex
dealer, committed suicide after having shot and killed his estranged girlfriend.
Last night there were reports that the post mortem results
showed he succumbed to hypertension.
He is being mourned at his rural Headlands home.
There is also a sizable gathering at his rented Chikanga
Phase One home in Mutare.
His close friend, Lloyd Katongomara, said he tried in vain
to convince the deceased to do away with suicidal thoughts.
“The last time he phoned me he had gone to Binga, where his
wife was working as a teacher.
“He was actually still in Binga by then, when he phoned me.
“In that telephone conversation, he told me that he was
heartbroken over what his wife had done to him.
“I asked him what exactly his wife had done but he could
not divulge anything more. He only promised to let me know the whole story when
he returned.
“Yesterday (Sunday), I phoned him knowing he was now
around.
“We arranged to meet and that is when he told me that he
had discovered that his wife was cheating on him and he had decided to take his
life.
“He said his wife was cheating on him in Binga.
“He told me that he had come back here in Mutare on
Thursday together with his two children and his wife.
“He looked and sounded distressed. I tried to counsel and urged him to do away
with suicidal thoughts.
“After some time, I left him for some errands I had to do.
The next thing was receiving a phone call that he had committed suicide at his
rural home around Headlands,” said Katongomara, who is now turning out for
Manica Diamonds.
The then team manager at Buffaloes, Ticha Zikai, recounted
the years he spent with the now deceased.
“I personally took them from Masvingo United; Philip
Chandisaita, Bevern Chirere and Elton Dzumbunu.
“I remember personally giving them bus fare to travel from
Masvingo to their rural homes in Rusape before they came to Mutare to join
Buffaloes.
“He was with us for the four years that we played in the
Castle Lager Premiership.
“It is painful to lose a colleague in this manner. We are
really finding it difficult to understand why he had to take his life.
“He was a very disciplined player.
“I recently saw him getting the armband at Buffaloes in
Division One, which is testimony of his discipline.
“We are saying when one gets into problems we are supposed
to share. This is a message to our football players.
“If we had had the opportunity to sit down with him perhaps
it could have ended in a different way without losing a life just like that.” H
Metro
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