Barnabas Zarurayi attacked Tsitsi Mabwedza for failing to
treat him as her husband. He also went on to soil himself in the bedroom
boasting that the house was his.
The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon and no police
report has been made. The pair has been married for 14 years and blessed with
five children. Tsitsi narrated the incident to H-Metro.
“I told my husband to remove his shoes when he was about to
sleep on the bed so that he doesn’t make the blankets dirty and he ignored.
“After that he started using the bedroom as a toilet and
when I noticed that I tried stopping him and he said it was his house and no
one could tell him what to do.
“I told him that he was not a responsible man because I was
providing everything and his duty is to eat; he then started beating me,” said
Tsitsi.
She added: “I was thrown on walls. I tried to run away and
he caught me and started hitting my head on stones resulting in my eye being
plucked out. I felt the pain and the best I could do was to scream for help,”
she said.
The pair had a previous altercation which prompted them to
stay separately for months. A witness, Mai Tafadzwa, who helped to calm the
fight said: “I heard Tsitsi screaming for help and when I arrived Barnabas was
beating his wife aggressively, pushing her to the walls. After I stopped the
fight I went home, without the knowledge that the fight would continue.
“To my surprise today I heard that Barnabas removed his
wife’s eye yet I thought I had stopped the fight,” she said.
Barnabas said his wife was lacking respect. “My wife is
trying to overtake me forgetting that I am the head of the house and I own this
house. I don’t remember some of the things which happened to me. I don’t know
where the power came from and what I remember is when I said, ‘vadzimu vangu
vasvika’ and we started fighting.
“Later on I was surprised to see my wife’s eye bleeding,
then I moved away. The problem is I don’t want people who make me angry,
because when I get angry I am not able to control my anger,” said Barnabas.
Another witness said: “Barnabas came from work and passed
through the muddy road due to these rains. So his wife told him to remove his
shoes which were dirty and he started boasting that no one should tell him what
to do in the house.
“He later on urinated in the bedroom and all over on the
floor before the wife confronted him leading to a fight. So the wife further
told him that he was only a man in the blankets and he was irresponsible.
“That provoked Barnabas leading to the fight. He used his
fists and hit her head against the stones,” said the witness. Tsitsi’s mother
tried to fight Barnabas after she confronted him following the assault but
could not overcome him.
Surprisingly, no police report was made and the couple is
still together. H Metro
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