Own Correspondent|Zimbabweans have indeed been wondering where once one of the greatest footballers in Zimbabwe ended.

After a painstaking search, state run Herald newspaper has reveal that Murewa gave up everything, including football and medicine, to serve the Lord.

“Tauya is not involved in football anymore, he left all that when he retired from the game and he is neither serving as a doctor” sources told The Herald On Saturday.

“He chose a different path and that might surprise many but that’s what he decided to do and he is firmly dedicated to his cause.

“He gave his life to serving the Lord and is deeply involved in the ZCC (Zion Christian Church) in South Africa.

“To him, that’s all that matters now, serving this organisation, worshipping and doing work, in various capacities, for the ZCC.

“He is a very different man from the Tauya you used to know, this is a man who deeply believes in the path he has taken and is not concerned about life’s luxuries anymore.

“He now likes to live a very humble life, far away from the spotlight where he thrived as a footballer, and his life today is all centred on ZCC activities in the Pretoria area.

“Football is a chapter that he closed some time ago and doesn’t want to talk about it anymore because he believes he has found what he was looking for and this is the life he wants.”

The ZCC is considered to be the largest African initiated church with a huge presence across the southern tip of the continent.

Its roots are in South Africa where it has an estimated eight to 10 million members with its headquarters at Zion City Moira in the Limpopo Province.

The late Bishop Samuel Mutendi founded the Zimbabwe branch of the ZCC and its membership is estimated to be over one million in this country.

“Tauya’s story changed along the way and he turned his back on everything he had been doing to dedicate his life to the ZCC and everything that the church stands for,” the sources said.

“I guess that has always been his character that if he wants to do something, his dedication towards that is 100 percent and that’s what he is doing right now.

“Of course, it has come at a personal cost, some would say, because he has had to forgo some of the luxuries that let’s say coaching or practising as a doctor might have brought him.

“But, he believes that’s a good price to pay, he likes it that way and he feels he is where he wants to be in his life.”

The Herald