adminThupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau
A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Masvingo allegedly fatally stabbed his wife’s boyfriend after finding his wife pregnant on his return home after more than a year in South Africa.
Clever Dhambhara of Chief Nyajena area allegedly killed Onisimo Mudzipurwa on December 23 when he found him with his wife Chipo Mushonga.
A court heard that Dhambhara, employed at Amakhosi lodge in Durban, had gone for more than a year without communicating with his wife.
When he found his wife pregnant, he allegedly went berserk and stabbed his rival with a broken mirror on the collar bone.
Dhambhara was not asked to plead when he appeared before Beitbridge magistrate, Godswill Mavenge yesterday.
The magistrate remanded him in custody to January 14.
Prosecuting, Eugene Moyo said on December 23, Dhambhara went to Dulibadzimu suburb looking for his wife whom he had deserted in December 2014 when he went to South Africa.
He found the wife with her new lover, Mudzipurwa.
The wife, the court heard, was pregnant.
Moyo said a fight ensued between Dhambhara and Mudzipurwa. Dhambhara then stabbed the rival suitor on the right collar bone with a piece of a broken mirror. The court further heard that Mudzipurwa tried to flee from the house but died after staggering for 200 metres.
The matter was reported to the police who arrested Dhambhara while he was trying to flee to his South African base.
In 2011 a 39-year-old Zimbabwean man based in South Africa fatally stabbed his wife and a two-day-old infant before committing suicide near the crime scene following a domestic dispute.
The man, Mboneni Sibanda had been staying in South Africa for four years leaving his wife Letina Muleya alone.
Muleya fell pregnant during Sibanda’s absence.
The adulterous affair came to light when Sibanda returned home in October in the same year.
In 2012 another South Africa-based Zimbabwean gunned down his wife and her mother after accusing his wife of infidelity.
Online Reporter