Husband basher threatens suicide

13 Jan, 2023 - 00:01 0 Views
Husband basher threatens suicide The matter has spilled into the courts where the two estranged sisters are seeking recourse

The ManicaPost

 

Tanyaradzwa Mujati
Weekender reporter

 

A MUTARE woman is in the habit of consuming poison each time she bashes her husband over his failure to provide for his family.

This has resulted in her husband, Hazvinei Muchayana, applying for a protection order against his wife, Stella Mupunga, saying she was disturbing his peace.

The matter appeared before Mutare magistrate, Ms Purity Gumbo last week who granted the protection order and advised Mupunga to apply for maintenance if her estranged husband is failing to provide for the family.

 

The protection order is valid for five years and Mupunga was ordered not to harass, insult, assault, intimidate and to visit Muchayana’s workplace to disturb his peace.

Muchayana said he sent Mupunga packing over her suicidal tendencies, but she continues sending him text messages threatening to kill herself.

“I could not stay with someone who drinks poison each time we fight. I1f she wants to kill herself, let her do so at her parents’ place and not my home. However, she has been texting me saying her life is meaningless and wants to come and kill herself in my yard,” said Muchayana.

Muchayana said Mupunga assaults him each time he visits his workplace and he wants her barred from visiting him.

“She beats me when she visits my workplace. I always restrain myself. I am fed up with her violent tendencies,” he said.
Muchayana said on December 24, Mupunga bit his left thumb following a misunderstanding and it is still hurting.

“On December 24, she bit my left thumb and is still hurting. On that day, she demanded that I should take her back to her parents’ home and I granted her wish and request.

“I did not know that she was violent in nature. We were married for five years and we only started staying together recently. All along we were a doing a long distance relationship and she had been hiding her ugly side. I paid her bride price and I think separating was a good move for us,” added Muchayana.

In response, Mupunga said she is trying to commit suicide because life is now valueless following her terrible mistake of marrying an irresponsible man like Muchayana.

“He is not looking after his children. They are not being fed, they are not going to school and we are starving as a family. We do not have anywhere to sleep, yet he claims to be the man of the house. I am suffering because of him. I made a mistake by marrying him. I regret it each and every day, that is why I have resolved to die than continue struggling with him,” she said.

Mupunga also said her estranged husband forced her to leave her job in South Africa.

“I could have been somewhere in life by now. He forced me to leave my job in South Africa, only to come back to wallow in abject poverty,” she said.

Ms Gumbo advised Mupunga against habouring suicide thoughts.

 

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