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Maid drags abusive boss to court
14 Jul 2017 at 07:58hrs | Views
A Bulawayo man who allegedly did not want to pay his maid's salary is accused of demanding sex.
Sibongile Mnkandla from Kingsdale said her boss Micheal Kawome has been making advances towards her and also victimising her at work.
This was said at the Bulawayo Civil Court where Mnkandla sought a peace order.
"I am employed by the respondent Micheal Kawome as a maid and I started working for him in 2013. He is now violent towards me.
"The abuse started after he told me that he wanted to make me his girlfriend and I refused. He is also in the habit of coming to my room late at night saying he wants to be intimate with me. The other time he proposed love to me and I told his wife who later confronted him," said Mnkandla.
She further said her employer was also abusing her by not paying her salary on time apparently as punishment for turning down his sexual advances.
"Whenever it's month-end he starts abusing me while refusing to give me my money. Whenever I confront him he says that he would pay me when he returns from business trips.
"There was a time when I was working in the garden and he pointed a gun at me. Moments later I felt a bullet passing by my ear. When I reported the matter to the police no action was taken against him. I am now living in fear," she said.
Kawome in his response said the only time he went to Mnkandla's bedroom was not for sex because his manhood was swollen and inactive.
"The truth is that our work relationship is now bad. It is not true that I proposed love to her and the night she claimed I went to her room my private parts were swollen.
"As a result of the swollenness they (balls) were big like the size of my head such that I couldn't engage in sex.
"It is also not true that I pointed a gun at her. It was a pellet gun I was using it to scare away an eagle that had taken one of my chicks. She is only bitter that I terminated her contract when I owe her some money," said Kawome.
In his ruling the presiding magistrate Sheunesu Matova however, dismissed Mnkandla's application saying she had approached the wrong court before she advised her to approach the Labour Court.
Sibongile Mnkandla from Kingsdale said her boss Micheal Kawome has been making advances towards her and also victimising her at work.
This was said at the Bulawayo Civil Court where Mnkandla sought a peace order.
"I am employed by the respondent Micheal Kawome as a maid and I started working for him in 2013. He is now violent towards me.
"The abuse started after he told me that he wanted to make me his girlfriend and I refused. He is also in the habit of coming to my room late at night saying he wants to be intimate with me. The other time he proposed love to me and I told his wife who later confronted him," said Mnkandla.
She further said her employer was also abusing her by not paying her salary on time apparently as punishment for turning down his sexual advances.
"There was a time when I was working in the garden and he pointed a gun at me. Moments later I felt a bullet passing by my ear. When I reported the matter to the police no action was taken against him. I am now living in fear," she said.
Kawome in his response said the only time he went to Mnkandla's bedroom was not for sex because his manhood was swollen and inactive.
"The truth is that our work relationship is now bad. It is not true that I proposed love to her and the night she claimed I went to her room my private parts were swollen.
"As a result of the swollenness they (balls) were big like the size of my head such that I couldn't engage in sex.
"It is also not true that I pointed a gun at her. It was a pellet gun I was using it to scare away an eagle that had taken one of my chicks. She is only bitter that I terminated her contract when I owe her some money," said Kawome.
In his ruling the presiding magistrate Sheunesu Matova however, dismissed Mnkandla's application saying she had approached the wrong court before she advised her to approach the Labour Court.
Source - bmetro
