Cheating husband found dead

HE CHEATED on his wife with so many women and for so long that she no longer cared if he returned home or not. But this time, Mario Mabunda (35), of Mafambisa near Naas in Mpumalanga, was not with one of his lovers.

He was lying dead under long grass, just 100 metres from his home. Mabunda left his house on Saturday and, as usual, didn't tell his wife, Teresa Nkomo (40) where he was going.

Teresa said: "I didn't think much of it when he still hadn't returned on Sunday. He had been hired by a woman known as Lakhoza, who lives near our home, to cut the long grass at her place."

Teresa said it was Lakhoza who found him lying dead in the grass.

"He spent most of his weekends with his lovers and returned to me on weekdays. So I didn't think much of his disappearance. I prayed for him to stop cheating many times, but he just couldn't stop," she wept.

Mario was still wearing his overalls and boots, and clutching the panga he used to cut grass. He had bled heavily from a head wound. An electric cable was lying next to him. Rats had already begun feasting on his body.

Zanele Nkosi (42), who heard Lakhoza's screams after she found the body, said: "It seems he had been there since Saturday because the rats had eaten the tips of his fingers already."

Police have opened an inquest docket and a post mortem will be conducted to establish the cause of death.