Top businessman and one of the country’s pioneers in the indeginisation drive ,Aaron Hapagarwi Samuriwo, has died.

He was 89.

Samuriwo succumbed to heart failure at Trauma Centre and Hospital in Harare on Tuesday.

Samuriwo is father to one of the first three pilots in Zimbabwe, Charles.

Family spokesperson Ms Abigail Samuriwo said mourners are gathered at No. 13 Ecstien Road in Marlborough.

“People will leave for our rural home in Chihota, Mashonaland East, tomorrow (today) ahead of his burial on Saturday,” she said.