Man beats up another over baby-mama

EX-LOVERS: Chimbise and Gwangwava in happier times

A Maun Customary Court has heard of how a jealous man severely beat up another man after he found him sitting in a car with his ex-girlfriend and mother to his two kids.

The 39-year-old Zimbabwean man, Gilbert Gwangwava, escaped a two months jail sentence after the court gave him a suspended sentence for beating up his fellow country man, Luckson Hlatyhwayo (46), over his baby mama, Taboka Chimbise (29).

He was however fined P3 950 for damages he caused to Hlatshwayo’s car and a missing mobile phone.

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“I will pay. I have no intention to appeal,” a relieved Gwangwava told The Voice outside court.

A quick background to the case is that Hlatyhwayo reported Gwangwava to Maun police on January 26th this year after being badly assaulted at Chimbise’s house.

Hlatyhwayo who denied any love affair with Chimbise told court that he had gone to drop off the woman at her place in Maun’s Thito ward after helping her buy electricity in town. “”She is my workmate and I was just helping her out of goodwill,” he said

He said the jealous Gwangwava first hit him with a woman’s shoe, punched him several times with fists, forced him out of the car, beat him some more and gave chase when he tried to escape.

He said Gwangwava threw him to the ground and kicked him several times, only leaving him briefly when he thought he had fainted.

“I gave her a ride home after giving her the P50 for electricity. I was only helping my work colleague,” Hlatyhwayo had told court.

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He said after escaping through the fence, Gwangwava then turned to his car and vandalised it.

However Chimbise maintained she was not dating any of the two men. “Gwangwava is my ex-boyfriend. He is only the father of my two boys,” she said.

Kgosi Bringle Dithapo who presided over the matter slapped Gwangwava with a two months jail sentence which was wholly suspended on condition that he does not repeat the crime within the next six months.

He further fined him P3 950 in compensation for Hlatyhwayo’s lost Samsung mobile phone and damages to his car.

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