Man stabs, shaves wife's locks after children eat his lunch

A Bulawayo man rained blows on his wife, stabbed her and cut off her hair when he got home to find children ate his lunch.

Oliver Sibanda, a nurse at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo allegedly turned violent when he got home on the night of 28 February and demanded his lunch and dinner.

He told his wife Patricia Magohoto to serve him all the meals he had missed when he went to drink beer.
He became livid when his wife told him his children had eaten his lunch and left his supper.

Sibanda reportedly failed to keep his anger in check when he heard the lunch had consisted of spaghetti and mince while the supper was sadza and beans.

He punched his wife and grabbed a pair of scissors that he used to stab her on the forehead and right cheek.

Sibanda then used the sciscors to cut off his wife's shoulder length dreadlocks.

The children reportedly fled from the house when they saw their father going wild.

The matter was reported to the police and Magohoto was referred to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.

Sibanda appeared before magistrate Tancy Dube facing a physical abuse charge.

He was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody while a medical report on his wife's injuries was being compiled.