'My son was brilliant, bold, and brave'

Monday, May 07, 2018

Major Cliff Manyuni was laid to rest on Saturday in Rakops.

While others may believe that the late Major Cliff Manyuni could have lost control of the BF-5 fighter jet he was operating a day before the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Day late last month, his father, Bonno Manyuni holds a different version.

The 35-year-old BDF pilot untimely lost his life when the BF-5 aircraft tragically crash-landed at the Botswana Golf Club’s 11th hole mid-morning of Friday, April 27, 2018 while rehearsing for the BDF Day celebrations that were held at the National Stadium a day later.

In his moving and heart-wrenching tribute to his late son on Saturday at the remote village of Rakops in the Boteti sub-district, Manyuni described the University of Botswana (UB) graduate in Diploma in Pastoral Theology, as a “brilliant, bold and brave someone”.

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'My son was brilliant, bold, and brave'

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