South Africans say goodbye to slain soccer captain Meyiwa
- 10 years ago
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Thousands of weeping South Africans wearing red or black soccer jerseys said farewell to murdered national team goalkeeper and captain Senzo Meyiwa at a packed stadium in the Indian Ocean city of Durban on Saturday (November 1).
The mood was in part somber, with red-eyed fans sobbing or blowing into tissues as a hearse carrying the 27-year-old's flag-draped coffin drove around the stadium, and at times festive as they blew vuvuzela horns and sang soccer chants.
Meyiwa was shot and killed in what appeared to have been a botched robbery at his mistress's house on the night of October 26, highlighting the scourge of gun violence in Africa's most advanced country.
Thousands of weeping South Africans wearing red or black soccer jerseys said farewell to murdered national team goalkeeper and captain Senzo Meyiwa at a packed stadium in the Indian Ocean city of Durban on Saturday (November 1).
The mood was in part somber, with red-eyed fans sobbing or blowing into tissues as a hearse carrying the 27-year-old's flag-draped coffin drove around the stadium, and at times festive as they blew vuvuzela horns and sang soccer chants.
Meyiwa was shot and killed in what appeared to have been a botched robbery at his mistress's house on the night of October 26, highlighting the scourge of gun violence in Africa's most advanced country.