FOUR Zimbabwean women have appeared in a South African
court, facing charges of assault and kidnapping, after a video of them
assaulting an unidentified woman they accused of being a husband snatcher went
viral.
South African media reports suggest the women are illegal
immigrants and are facing up to three years each in jail if found guilty.
The women who have since been identified as Jane Nyama,
Adda Mukwanda, Memort Maraura and Juliana Chaputika appeared before a Durban
magistrate last Thursday, where they were granted bail and will make another
court appearance in June.
The video, which attracted the attention of Zimbabwean
police opens with one of the suspects recording herself, where she says nhasi
tiriku . . . (today we are beating up a prostitute).
Thereafter, a woman is seen lying on the ground being
haplessly whipped with what appears to be a thin tree branch, before being
kicked by one of the suspects. Soon after, the suspect appears carrying a knife
before cutting the unidentified woman’s hair.
“The knife is not sharp enough,” one of the women is heard
saying.
The assailant in the video discards the knife before going
to fetch another.
“Next time you see my husband you should run away,” she
says while cutting and kicking the woman.
While trying to resist her assailant cutting her hair, two
more women appear in the video to assist her in her barrage by holding down the
woman.
Lately there has been an increase of people shooting videos
of themselves engaging in misdemeanours, which in most cases have landed them
in court and ultimately being fined or jailed.
The irony of the whole scenario is that in most cases
people record these videos to humiliate their victims but in turn end up with
an egg on their faces. Sunday News
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