Times Of Swaziland: MAN KILLS LIVE-IN LOVER WITH  NAIL, HAMMER, HANGS HIMSELF

MAN KILLS LIVE-IN LOVER WITH  NAIL, HAMMER, HANGS HIMSELF
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BY JABULISA DLAMINI on 17/08/2017 08:19:00


MANKAYANE – A terrified three-year-old boy who had just opened the main door
to his parent’s house cried hysterically and raised the alarm after he came
across his father dead, hanging from the rafters.
The toddler also saw his mother, Bonakele Magagula (25), who had had been
murdered and shoved into a corner, with a six-inch industrial nail and part of a
claw hammer protruding from her head.
Her body had been wrapped in a sleeping mattress and the floor, together with
her clothing, were covered in blood.
A claw hammer is a tool primarily used for pounding nails into, or extracting
nails from some other object.
The father, Thabo Khoza (28), who sold pirated DVDs and CDs, is believed to have
hanged himself after murdering the mother of his three children, one unborn, by
hitting her on the head with the claw hammer and a six-inch nail, which he
allegedly hammered into her skull until she died.
Allegations are that Khoza first stuffed his girlfriend’s mouth with clothing
so that she could not scream, tied both her hands and legs before he reached out
for the claw hammer and nail.
A visibly traumatised Gideon Magagula, Bonakele’s father, who is the Secretary
at Mbikwakhe Umphakatsi, told this publication that her daughter had been abused
for the four years she had been in a love relationship with Khoza.
“My daughter had to drop out in Form III after her first pregnancy. This was
after I had paid E4 000 for her school fees that year. After she had given
birth, I tried to send her back to school, however, she was again impregnated by
the same man.
“The two had a very toxic relationship. The bad fights continued and my child
would be severely assaulted to a point that she had to seek refuge in other
people’s homes.
“I decided to forcefully fetch her from where she stayed with the father of
her children around Matsapha and took her back home to Mbikwakhe,” a teary
Magagula said.
He added that while staying at Mbikwakhe, Khoza would come and give her gifts
and money, also for their two children. Magagula said after a while, when things
seemed fine, they lived together again, until two months ago when he was again
informed by her daughter of the continuous physical abuse.
“I fetched her again and she stayed with me for two months. On the Saturday, a
day before she was murdered, the man came to my home at about 9pm, driving a car
and took my daughter, who was pregnant again with his third child. They also
took the two other children and said the family in Mankayane wanted to see them.
We do not have an idea what happened while they were there on the day, whether
they were involved in another fight or not, we were only called and informed
that my daughter had been killed,” Magagula said.