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“Mhlanga, who looked like someone possessed, opened the door and threatened to assault anyone who intervened. He then grabbed an axe and went back into the house. A few seconds later, we heard a blood
curdling scream and Mhlanga emerged, drenched in blood,” said the neighbour.
The neighbour said when they went into the house, there was blood everywhere and the axe was stuck on Ndlovu’s head.
“There was also a blood stained knife in the room. Someone rushed to make a report at Pumula Police Station while others started looking for Mhlanga. He was found hanging from a tree at another neighbour’s house in the early hours of Christmas Day,” said the neighbour.
“We are yet to recover from what we saw. We used to think such things only happened in movies, where they were created by imaginative directors. It is very scary to witness them in real life.”
Ndlovu’s son, Mr Brian Ngwenya who was still struggling to come to terms with his mother’s gruesome death, failed to put together a single coherent sentence, when Chronicle caught up with him.
The Mhlanga family was very hostile.
“Go to whoever told you the story and ask for the full details,” said a man identified as Mhlanga’s father.
He stood up threateningly as if he was going to look for a weapon as other men who were gathered at his home started threatening this reporter.
“All you journalists are the same, you have no respect. There was another group, which was here earlier and we told them to go away,” said one of the men ominously as the newscrew went out of the gate.
The police spokesperson for Bulawayo Province, Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo, confirmed the incident yesterday.
He appealed to members of the public to always find amicable ways of solving disputes.
“We would have loved a violence-free festive season. We appeal to members of the public not to resort to violence to solve differences. We advise them to seek counselling or the intervention of community leader
like churches and elders in society,” said Insp Moyo.
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