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ALL married women have felt like beating another woman for flirting with their husbands at some stage, a magistrate said yesterday as she sentenced a teacher who attacked a love rival. Mrs Rose Dube spoke after hearing how two female teachers had to be pulled apart by their colleagues during a fight over a man.
Tsitsi Chimunhu, of Ingagula in Hwange, stormed the staff room at Dampa Secondary School in Dete on 18 October and went for Lilian Dlodlo’s throat, accusing her of flirting with her husband, who was not named in court.
Mrs Dube heard how Chimunhu slapped Ms Dlodlo several times across the face and punched her in front of stunned colleagues.
Prosecuting, Mr Tongai Gudo said Chimunhu had earlier confronted Ms Dlodlo saying she came across her mobile phone number in her husband’s phone. She claimed the two were phoning each other behind her back.
Ms Dlodlo, who is from Bulawayo, suffered injuries to the eyes and elbow and had to undergo hospital treatment.
The magistrate gave Chimunhu an option to either pay a fine of $50 or spend 10 days in prison for the assault charge.
Mrs Dube warned married women against picking up fights with people they suspected to be having affairs with their husbands.
She told Chimunhu before sentencing: “Learn to behave like a married woman and control yourself. If you go around assaulting people you think are flirting with your husbands, then this world will be chaotic.
“Ask any woman around and you will find that at some stage they wanted to beat somebody but exercised self-restraint.”
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