Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono Image source
Synopsis
Businessman and soccer player
First name
Matsilela
Middle name
Ephraim “Jomo”
Last name
Sono
Date of birth
17-July-1955
Location of birth
Orlando East, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
Gender
Male
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for Orlando Pirates in the 1960s, died from a car crash. At the time his mother abandoned him. Sono met his mother again when he was 34 years old through a newspaper article. Sono was left in the care of his ailing grandparents in a tiny Soweto home.