Former Zimbabwe footballer Charles Yohane has died in South Africa at the age of 48 in an apparent car-jacking incident.
Yohane was a member of the Warriors’ side that competed in the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 2004.
Charles Yohane worked as a football coach and a cab driver in Johannesburg after retiring from playing.
His body was discovered on Monday in Soweto, however, it is believed he died on Saturday night.
His brother Lewis said, “He was hijacked, they took his car and shot him in the head.”
Yohane arrived in South Africa from Zimbabwe in 1996 to play for Wits, where he became captain and made a club record 268 games between 1997 and 2006.
He eventually became the Wits’ developmental coach but was released when the club’s franchise was sold to Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila in 2020.
