BY SPORTSCAST WRITER
BULAWAYO – The chief executive of Highlanders, Zimbabwe’s oldest professional football club, has been found alone dead on Monday at his home in Bulawayo just a week after posting on Facebook that lonely death was less tragic.
60-year-old Sihlangu Dlodlo was last seen alive on Saturday but lack of communication led to a search, which resulted in him being discovered dead at his house in Nketa, a township in Zimbabwe’s second largest city.
A week earlier, writing mostly in his native Ndebele language, Dlodo had posted that “one nice way to die” was alone at home without “drama”, with “friends seeing the corpse rotting in the house for a week or so but not knowing how to contact relatives of the deceased.”
Wrote Dlodlo on 16 October: “One way yokuqeda idrama lobumbulu bemfemi is to die endlini uwedwa nje…just rot for a week or so, omakhalwane babone ngempukane eziyigreen ewindini and not know how to contact izihlobi zakho. Amapholisa abuthe amaremains ngebhokosi lensimbi and open truck bakuse, hopefully eKings and Queens. That wat akhula za body viewing. Straight to Luveve Cemetery. By the way, ingabuyi lama flazuwi please bo sugar.”
Dlodlo, in the post, appeared to be wishing to die in his hometown of Bulawayo, choosing where to be buried, with mourners not viewing his lifeless body and not bringing any flowers to the funeral.
Dlodlo was appointed CEO of Highlanders in April this year.
The iconic Zimbabwean club Highlanders, formed in in 1926, was founded by Ndebele King Lobengula’s grandsons – Albert and Rhodes – nearly a century ago.
