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Jealous lover torches boyfriend’s home
The plasma TV set that was burned. Photo: TK Mashaba The bed and blankets that were burned. Photo: TK Mashaba TK Mashaba A Bela-Bela couple’s young love hit rock bottom when a young woman allegedly decided to set fire to the one-room home she had shared with her lover. The incident occurred in the early hours of
Sunday, 20 September, at the Mandela Section. Shiba Maswanganyi who was out when the incident occurred. He told The BEAT that he had been alerted to the fire by the police, who he had spotted attending to the scene. “I was shocked when they told me,” he said. “I suspected my girlfriend, as we had argued before the incident.”
He alleged that the woman had threatened to burn their home, but that he had not taken her threats seriously. “I didn’t think she would go that far,” he said. The room was burned to ashes, including the plasma television, bed, wall unit and fridge, as well as all his clothes.
“I always knew her as a sweet and respectful girl, but I don’t know what drove her to that madness,” he said. The young woman, who denies the allegation, appeared briefly before the Bela-Bela magistrate’s court on Tuesday, 22 September, where her case was postponed.