Headmaster drags man to traditional court over 'affair' with wife

THE headmaster of Kwenenge Primary School in Mangwe District has dragged a neighbourhood watch committee member to a traditional court accusing him of having an affair with his wife.

Vincent Ncube (42) recently appeared at the Plumtree magistrate's court after stabbing his wife Sithandazile Ndebele (38), with a knife over the alleged affair.

He told the court that he caught his wife at Mr Lancelot Moyo's house in the middle of the night which confirmed that they were having an affair.

Mr Moyo took Ncube to Chief Tshitshi's court and was awarded a cow for defamation of character.
He said he was not at home on the day which Ncube alleged to have caught him with his wife.

"This man was just making false allegations against me in court. He alleged that I was having an affair with his wife and that he caught me red-handed which is not true. On the day that he claims to have seen me, I was not even at the school because I had travelled to Bulawayo.

"His allegations have tarnished my image and that is why I brought him to the community court and demand compensation from him. I do not even know why he was making up all these stories because I do not even know his wife," said Mr Moyo.

He demanded that Ncube apologises for the allegations he had made.
Speaking during his trial, Ncube told the court that he followed his wife's footprints to the headmaster's house after he could not find her at their homestead at night.

He said he peeped through a window and saw his wife inside with the headmaster and she ran away after he confronted her. Ncube said his wife later confessed after receiving a beating from him that she was having an affair with the headmaster and they had met while she was selling vegetables.

Ncube described his wife as a loose woman and alleged that she was impregnated by their neighbour while he was in South Africa. He said his wife went on to give birth prematurely and buried the child without his knowledge.

On the day of the incident, Ncube assaulted his wife with a knobkerrie and stabbed her once on the forehead with a knife.

He then dragged her by the arm into a bushy area where he wanted to chop her with an axe. Neighbours came to her rescue and restrained him.