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A teacher at Tshelanyemba High School in Kezi District allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the roof of a granary at his parents’ homestead.
The Geography and Building Studies teacher was identified as Fortune Nyathi (36) from Mazwi Village under Chief Malaba.
Nyathi was buried on Sunday.Chronicle visited Nyathi’s homestead near Tshelanyemba Business Centre.
The family told the news crew that Nyathi could have been bewitched as his elder brother also committed suicide three years ago. “We are still trying to come to terms with Fortune’s death. It was so sudden I cannot even relate what happened. At least if he had fallen ill, I would say it is God’s way but we only saw his colleagues bringing him home, saying he had taken too much beer and was behaving funny,” said his father, Mr Samuel
Toloke Nyathi, who is also the senior village head.
He said the incident, which was attended to by police, occurred on Thursday last week in the morning.
“He was a sports master at the school and he took some pupils to Gwanda for sporting activities and when he returned on Wednesday, he went to drink at Tshelanyemba Business Centre with his colleagues.
“One of the teachers phoned on Wednesday saying Fortune was drunk and failing to walk and a businessman brought him in his car and he looked like he was mentally disturbed because he was not even talking coherently,” said Mr Nyathi.
“We thought he was just drunk and we put him to bed but in the morning, the worst was to come. His mother was preparing breakfast for those who were going to school and he woke up and went to the kitchen where he spoke to his friend who had come to pick up his goat. He left the kitchen and a few minutes later, he was found hanging from the roof of our granary.”
Nyathi is survived by a wife and a minor child.
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