Attempted rape survivor speaks

Nqobile Tshili
A MOB from Bulawayoa��s Cowdray Park suburb attacked a man who tried to rape a granny and broke his arm after stamping on his privates.

Sibusiso Ncube (32) allegedly pounced on the 50-year-old woman as she was harvesting maize from her fields last Wednesday.

However, the granny fought off Ncube who was punching her face while choking her.

The complainant, residents said, would scream at intervals as she wrestled Ncube.

Her cries for help attracted the residents who meted out mob justice on Ncube.

The woman whose face was swollen, narrated her ordeal to B-Metro.

a�?I was going about my business at my piece of land at about 7am when a man approached me from behind and asked if I was scared of him,a�? she said.

a�?I told him his sudden appearance had startled me. He started advancing towards me with a strange expression on his face. He said he wanted to do a�?thingsa�� to me. He started advancing towards me in a creepy way,a�? she said.

Sensing danger, she armed herself with a hoe and warned him to stay away.

a�?But he continued coming at me, I lifted the hoe and tried to strike him, he dodged the blow. He grabbed me by the neck and pushed me down, hitting with his fists demanding that I open my legs for him. I refused while wrestling him and screaming,a�?A� she said.

The attacker threatened to kill her while demanding that she opens her legs.

a�?I was defiant saying I would kill him as well. I continued to scream and some people heard me and came to my rescue,a�? she said.

The complainant said the man tried to escape when he heard residentsa�� voices, but her rescuers managed to apprehend him.

a�?They thoroughly bashed him until his arm broke. They thereafter handed him over to the police,a�? she said.

The complainant was taken to the United Bulawayo Hospitals where she was treated and discharged.

A resident who asked not to be named said: a�?Boys from the suburb stamped on his privates.a�?

The complainanta��s neighbour said she was shocked by the attempted sex attack on the widow who fends for her family through urban farming.

Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango applauded the residents for effecting a citizensa�� arrest.

However, she said the public should never take the law into their hands.

a�?Mob justice is a bad thing because people end up committing offences while trying to solve a crime,a�? she said.

Insp Simango noted that last month in the same suburb a mob assaulted a suspected thief to death.A� The suspect had broken into two houses.

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