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A MAN has been charged with attempted murder following a savage stabbing rampage at a house party.
Vezinhlalo Sibanda, 22, of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo, drove a screw-driver into 28-year-old Hloniphani Khumalo’s stomach, throat and head at a New Year’s Eve party in the suburb, a court head.
Khumalo had left the house at around 10PM for Airport Beer Garden to buy more alcohol when Sibanda and four other men alighted from a commuter omnibus. The commuter omnibus left with Khumalo’s girlfriend, Primrose Sibanda, who was at the shindig.
Mufaro Mageza, prosecuting, told Bulawayo magistrate Willard Maphios Moyo that a friend had called Khumalo to inform him that his girlfriend had been taken away and five men who appeared to be looking for trouble were now at the party.
Khumalo wasted no time and rushed back. He confronted the men about his girlfriend’s whereabouts but Sibanda produced a screw-driver which he used to stab him twice on the stomach, once on the throat and several times in the head, said Mageza.
Sibanda, who was not asked to plead, was remanded in custody to January 26.
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