adminLethokuhle Moyo Court Reporter
AN INJIVA who disappeared for 18 years, only to return early this year threatening to shoot his former girlfriend for falling in love with another man, has appeared in court.
Maria Ncube said she started dating Sihlobo Ndlovu in 1994 and he disappeared without a word in 1997, only to return early this year when she had moved on with her life.
Ncube and Ndlovu both reside in Gwabalanda and the woman said her ex-boyfriend had threatened to shoot her as well as her new lover on several occasions.
She told magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure that Ndlovu harasses her when he sees her with her new boyfriend who promised to marry her.
“Your Worship, I’ve reported him to the police several times but he still comes back threatening to shoot me. I’m no longer free to be with my boyfriend at my place because he banned him from coming to visit me and threatened to kill him,” she said.
Magistrate Mashavakure granted the protection order and ordered Ndlovu to stop abusing Ncube.
Ndlovu told the court that for the past 18 years he was in jail in South Africa but did not state for what crime.
He said he did not understand why Ncube wanted a protection order after they were intimate when he came back from the neighbouring country.
Ndlovu told the court that when he came back from South Africa this year, he was welcomed in the city by Ncube who took him to her place.
“Your Worship, I’m surprised because everything was well when I came back. I told her the reason why I was not communicating with her and we even made love,” Ndlovu said.
Ndlovu said he now wanted all his belongings that he left at Ncube’s place but Ncube said she did not have anything that belongs to him because all she had was what he gave her as gifts.
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