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Man goes berserk, torches mother's huts
30 May 2014 at 07:19hrs | Views
A Mangwe man went berserk and torched two of his mother's huts, destroying property worth about $350 in revenge over alleged ill-treatment by her.
Sipho Dlamini, 25, reportedly woke up at night and set ablaze a kitchen hut and a bedroom hut where his mother was sleeping.
Prosecutors say the mother, Laiza Tshuma, 65, bolted out of the hut half naked after seeing her bedroom roof in flames.
Dlamini appeared before Plumtree magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa charged with malicious damage to property.
Prosecuting, Medica Tshuma said on May 22, Dlamini got angry after his mother told him to sleep in his own room instead of his aunt's.
"The accused person committed the offence in a bid to punish his mother after claiming that she was mistreating him," said the prosecutor.
Tshuma narrated her ordeal before the magistrate.
"I was called by my sister Rumbidzai Tshuma at midnight who told me that Sipho was sleeping in her room. She was afraid to order him out as he was drunk," she said.
"I tried to intervene but he resisted. I then called his brother who helped us to move him to his hut. A few hours later when I was asleep I heard my sister calling on me to wake up and to my shock I found the bedroom hut on fire."
Laiza said she jumped out of the burning hut only to discover the kitchen hut was also ablaze.
She said her son was a lazy nuisance who refuses to take orders from elders but spends most of his time drinking beer.
Dlamini admitted committing the crime and blamed his actions on alcohol.
He was remanded in custody to June 6 for sentencing.
Sipho Dlamini, 25, reportedly woke up at night and set ablaze a kitchen hut and a bedroom hut where his mother was sleeping.
Prosecutors say the mother, Laiza Tshuma, 65, bolted out of the hut half naked after seeing her bedroom roof in flames.
Dlamini appeared before Plumtree magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa charged with malicious damage to property.
Prosecuting, Medica Tshuma said on May 22, Dlamini got angry after his mother told him to sleep in his own room instead of his aunt's.
"The accused person committed the offence in a bid to punish his mother after claiming that she was mistreating him," said the prosecutor.
"I was called by my sister Rumbidzai Tshuma at midnight who told me that Sipho was sleeping in her room. She was afraid to order him out as he was drunk," she said.
"I tried to intervene but he resisted. I then called his brother who helped us to move him to his hut. A few hours later when I was asleep I heard my sister calling on me to wake up and to my shock I found the bedroom hut on fire."
Laiza said she jumped out of the burning hut only to discover the kitchen hut was also ablaze.
She said her son was a lazy nuisance who refuses to take orders from elders but spends most of his time drinking beer.
Dlamini admitted committing the crime and blamed his actions on alcohol.
He was remanded in custody to June 6 for sentencing.
Source - chronicle
