Online Reporter
Lovemore Dube
The funeral service for Highlanders Football Club chairman Retired Colonel Kenneth Mhlophe, who died in a tragic road accident last Thursday, has begun at St Margaret’s North End Parish in Bulawayo.
Mhlophe died alongside three other members of the Highlanders family; his deputy, Mr Sifiso Siziba, executive committee member responsible for finance Mr Nkani Khoza and club member Ms Mbalenhle Sibanda; when the vehicle they were travelling in was involved in an accident at Lochard in Insiza along the Bulawayo-Gweru Road.
The accident occurred while the Highlanders delegation was returning from the club’s Castle Lager Premier Soccer League away fixture against ZPC Kariba.
Mourners, including family members, Highlanders officials, football stakeholders and supporters, gathered at the church to pay their final respects to Col (Rtd) Mhlophe, who served as chairman of one of Zimbabwe’s most iconic football institutions.
Col (Rtd) Mhlophe will be laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery on Tuesday, while his colleagues Sifiso Siziba and Nkani Khoza are scheduled to be buried at the same cemetery on Monday (today).
Ms Sibanda will be buried in Filabusi on Tuesday.
Bongani Ndlovu