The ManicaPost
Weekender Correspondent
A CHIKANGA woman who did not take her eviction well from her previous lodgings has become a menace by incessantly assaulting her former landlord and her child as revenge.
This was revealed after the landlord, Alice Makaza dragged her former tenant Pamela Mutasa to court begging the court to stop the latter from assaulting her children and herself.
Mutare magistrate, Ms Nyasha Kuture presided over the matter.
Makaza told the court that ever since she evicted Mutasa from her Chikanga home, she has not been living in peace as the eviction created bad blood between them.
“I evicted her because she did not pay her rentals most of the times, while I also wanted to use the money. Since she moved out, she attacks and assaults my 10-year-old child when she sees him playing outside my yard.
“She comes to my house and assaults me, most of the times I end up hiding by locking myself inside while she shouts obscenities outside,” said Makaza.
She also told the court that whenever Mutasa sees her child, she tells him to pass a threatening message to her that she will assault her when she meets her.
Makaza also alleged that each time Mutasa sees her, she follows on the threats and harasses her in public only because she threw her out of her house.
Mutasa denied assaulting Makaza and her child.
“Yes she evicted me but I never assault her child, and I never assault her. She is the one who sends her child to my house to throw stones at us. My children are living in fear of her stubborn child because ever since we moved, he comes to our new place and throws big stones at us. I only came to Makaza to tell her what her child was doing and to instruct him to stop, and that is when she ran into her house and locked herself inside. I never assaulted her, she is a blatant liar Your Worship,” Mutasa defended herself.
She however, told the court that she had no objection with the protection order being granted to Makaza against her.
She was then ordered by the court to stop harassing, threatening or assault Makaza for a year, failure of which she will be arrested and arraigned before the Magistrates’ criminal court facing charges of breaching a court order.
