Sundaymail Editor
THERE is no justification for what Milton Tsanzirai Mukamba did.
None!
Yet another woman has been murdered at the hands of a man who saw her as less than human — all because of a dispute over US$40.
For his cold-blooded brutality, Mukamba will spend 23 years in prison, though that feels far too little for the night of horror he unleashed.
On June 4 last year, at Farm 19 in Tanda, Mayo, Mukamba flew into a blind rage because his wife, Rutendo Kapfudzaruwa, had spent US$40 without his say-so. A reasonable man might have talked it out or maybe even sulked.
But not this cold-blooded killer.
Fuelled by rage and entitlement, he attacked her with multiple weapons.
Not once or twice.
He kept going, beating her relentlessly throughout the night as if she were nothing but a punching bag or piñata.
It was an entire night of torture and by the time morning came, she was dead.
And what did this coward do next?
He put on an Oscar-worthy performance.
When police arrived, they found Mukamba standing among villagers, putting on a performance — crying crocodile tears over a death he had caused. Apparently, he wanted sympathy.
He wanted people to believe he was a devastated husband, not the cold-blooded killer that he truly is.
But justice came knocking.
He was arrested and he will now be rotting in a prison cell for the next 23 years.
Mukamba’s vile act was not an accident; it was a deliberate act of violence.
This leaves us with one question: How many more women must die before society stops excusing domestic violence as mere “family disputes”? How many more must suffer at the hands of men who believe they own their wives?
Mukamba did not just hit his wife, he tortured and executed her.
And for what? US$40?
Nothing will ever justify violence, let alone murder. Domestic abusers like Mukamba deserve to remain behind bars for life.
Online Reporter