Professor Jonathan Moyo with his wife Beatrice at a funeral service for their late daughter Zanele in Harare yesterday
Elita Chikwati Harare Bureau
THE body of Zanele, the fourth daughter of the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Professor Jonathan Moyo, arrived in Harare yesterday from South Africa.
Zanele was found dead in her apartment in Cape Town on Saturday.
Professor Moyo went to South Africa to collect Zanele’s body on Sunday and was accompanied by family friend and businessman Philip Chiyangwa, and lawyer Terrence Hussein.
Zanele, 20, was a first year Political Science, International Relations and Gender Studies student at the University of Cape Town.
There was a sombre atmosphere at the Harare International Airport as relatives waited for the body. Others were singing church hymns consoling the bereaved family.
The body was welcomed by Zanele’s mother, Beatrice Moyo, family members and senior government officials before it was escorted to Nyaradzo Funeral Parlour in Willowvale.
A short service was conducted before body viewing by her parents, siblings and other close relatives.
Some of the senior government officials who welcomed the body at the airport and attended the service were Zanu-PF chairman and Policy Co-ordination and Promotion of Socio-Economic Ventures in the President’s Office Minister Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, Minister of Local Government, Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, Macro Economic and Investment Minister, Cde Obert Mpofu and Youth, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Cde Patrick Zhuwao.
Other mourners included Bishop Trevor Manhanga and other senior pastors from different denominations.
Zanele will be buried tomorrow at Glen Forest Cemetery.
Mourners are gathered at house number 7 Rosary in Borrowdale, Harare.