Insults revenge: woman drives cattle into neighboura��s field

. Rutendo Karuva
A WOMAN from Mgadla Village in Matobo has decided to teach her neighbour Joshua Ndlovu (54) a lesson by turning his fields into a grazing area for her livestock as punishment for calling her names.

The two had an argument in June last year over land boundaries and during the argument Ndlovu called his neighbour Nozi Dube (29) a a�?barren prostitutea�?.

The insults did not sit well with Dube who then decided to teach Ndlovu a lesson by letting her cattle stray into his fields.

Ndlovu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Sheunesu Matova seeking a peace order against Dube.

a�?This girl has made my life hell as she insults me every time we meet, threatening to stone meA� claiming that I am full of myself because I have electricity and tap water at my place and they do not have,a�? he said.

a�?Last year I had my irrigation crops and she drove her fathera��s cattle into my garden to graze my crops and now she has shifted into my maize fields and it now looks like a playing ground after her cattle destroyed my crops,a�? said Ndlovu.

Dube dismissed the allegations that she was jealous of her neighbour, claiming that she only sent the cattle as punishment for calling her barren.

a�?He called me barren after we had an argument concerning the boundary between our stands. He wanted to assault me and lucky enough I managed to escape and he started calling me names but the most painful insult was when he called me barren and a prostitute.a�?

a�?I only wanted to teach him a lesson for insulting me like that. I wanted him to feel the same pain I felt when he called me barren and he is lying, it only happened once,a�? said Dube.

Matova granted the peace order and told the two families to maintain the 10-metre boundary that was set and desist from using obscene language and violence as it only creates more problems.