Fiji Times senior Sports journalist laid to rest

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Members of the media fraternity with Maciu Malo’s family at the Tavakubu cemetery in Lautoka today. Picture: AQELA SUSU

FAMILIES, friends and colleagues of The Fiji Times senior Sports journalist Maciu Rakuita Malo bid him farewell at the Tavakubu cemetery in Lautoka today.

Eulogies delivered today summed up a life fulfilled with love and purpose for the 42-year-old father of three.

Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley shared the sentiment of a company director who said the organisation had lost one of our best reporters.

“What can I say about a man who spoke volumes with his writing? What can I say about a man, not too tall, and yet managed to get rub shoulders with some of the tallest sports stars in the rugby world,” Wesley said in his eulogy at the Natabua Methodist Church.

“His stories spoke to the hearts of those who could not afford to go to Hong Kong or the US or Rio.

“There was television and the internet, but Maciu Malo somehow managed to get under your skin with the way he wrote about men and women who endeavoured to make their mark in a sporting discipline. He spoke the language of the common man and they gravitated to him because of it.”

Wesley said Malo was not just a Fiji Times man, he was a news man.

Eulogies from the vanua, family, church and the rugby club spoke of his pleasant, loving, caring and hardworking nature.

Malo is survived by his wife and three daughters.

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