A 31-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo allegedly hanged himself at
Luveve cemetery and left a suicide note inscribed on his shirt alleging that he
had been attacked by his girlfriend and two other men whom he ordered to feast
on his body.
Passersby discovered the body of Brighton Tshuma from
Cowdray park suburb, hanging from a tree at the cemetery at around 6AM
yesterday. Residents said he had passed by their homes on his way to
the cemetery at around 2AM while talking loudly to himself.
Tshuma’s mother, Mrs Atalia Tshuma, said her son was on the
run from police after assaulting his girlfriend in an infidelity row on Friday.
Mrs Tshuma said: “I received a call at around seven in the
morning. I then went to the cemetery. He had written a note on the inside of
his T-shirt with three names — that of the girlfriend and two other people
(names withheld). On the note, my son wrote that they beat him up. He also
wrote Nansi inyama yenu, dlanini. (Here is your meat you can now feast on it.”
She said she had warned her son against associating with
the girl as she was promiscuous.
“I told him to leave that girl but he did not listen,
instead he fought with me. Before his father died he also told him to cut ties
with the girl. By the time of his death he was on the run from the police
following the assault incident,” said Mrs Tshuma.
Meanwhile, an unidentified man was cut in half after he
allegedly threw himself in front of a train in a suspected suicide in Emganwini
on Saturday afternoon.
Sources said the man was dragged by the train for about 300
metres. “We believe he was trying to commit suicide. When we rushed to the
scene we found the body disfigured and it was cut in half. He was dragged by
the train from near Mbokodo up to the level crossing,” said a man who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango
could not be reached for comment on both incidents yesterday.
Suicide cases have been on the rise and police have warned
people against taking their own lives, urging them to find better ways of
solving their problems.
Police have noted that more men are committing suicide in
the country compared to women.
The Cowdray Park house in which they lived
The Cowdray Park house in which they lived
They have attributed the trend to social pressures
associated with men having to be breadwinners in a harsh economy.
According to the police, the number of suicides increased
from 474 in 2015 to 636 in 2016.
A total of 489 men committed suicide in 2016, up from 348
in 2015 while 147 women committed suicide in 2016 and 126 took their lives in
2015. Chronicle
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