adminSukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent
AN HIV positive Bulilima man committed suicide at his employer’s house saying he was haunted by feelings of guilt for infecting his wife with the deadly virus leading to her death.
Ndlelani Ncube, 59, who was employed as a domestic worker in South Africa, took his life on Monday last week.
His workmates found him hanging by a rope in his bedroom during working hours. They cut the rope and tried to resuscitate him but he died upon reaching the hospital.
His nephew who is also the councillor of Huwana area, Elias Dube said Ncube could not get over his wife’s death and often threatened to kill himself.
Dube said his uncle discovered that he was HIV positive two years ago and has been living recklessly since then.
“Ndlelani’s wife died in 2012 of the same disease (Aids related illness) and after that he became reckless. He abandoned his four children and stopped visiting them or supporting them financially.
“We used to talk to him over the phone and at one time I visited him at his workplace and tried to convince him to come back home.
“His HIV status left him devastated and he kept telling us that he had become a useless person. He blamed himself for bringing the sickness into the house and killing his wife,” said Dube.
He added: “When he left his children he told them that he had failed them and he could not face them anymore.”
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