Matsobane Seema allegedly stabbed his 59-year-old partner multiple times and poured boiling water on him after an argument.
- A 61-year-old Mpumalanga man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his 59-year-old partner multiple times.
- The man also used a garden fork to hit her on the head.
- The man faces charges of attempted murder, arson and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
A 61-year-old Mpumalanga man has turned himself in to police after he allegedly stabbed his 59-year-old partner multiple times after an argument, used a garden fork to hit her on the head and poured boiling water over her.
It is alleged that he then locked the woman and her sister in his house, set it on fire and fled.
The man, Matsobane Seema, appeared in Mbibana Magistrate Court on Wednesday on charges of attempted murder, arson and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The case was postponed and he remains in custody.
According to Mpumalanga police spokesman Brigadier Selvy Mohlala, the man’s partner and his sister lived in the same house with him.
Two days before Christmas, in the early hours of the morning, the partner tried to throw Seema out of the house after an argument between them turned ugly.
He allegedly refused to leave and they then slept in separate rooms that night. The victim reportedly slept with her sister in the same room.
mohlala said:
Shortly thereafter, the suspect allegedly entered the victim’s bedroom and stabbed her multiple times with a knife. [in] the upper right part of the body and then struck her further in the head with a pitchfork.
When the sister tried to intervene, he allegedly “pushed her until she was powerless.”
“Then the suspect also poured [boiling water over] the victim… As if that wasn’t enough, the suspect set the house on fire while all the doors were locked with the two brothers still inside. He then fled the scene,” Mohlala said.
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Community members rescued the women after hearing their screams.
“…they managed to knock out the burglar-proof windows of the bedroom windows to free them from the flames. The two victims were taken to the hospital for medical attention while Firefighters and Rescue managed to extinguish the fire.”
Mohlala added that Seema only turned herself in to the Vaalbank police station on the Tuesday, after Christmas and the New Year.
The Provincial Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. Semakaleng Daphney Manamela, welcomed the arrest.
However, she said she was disappointed that although the police had urged people to say no to gender-based violence, an older person who is supposed to set an example for young people was charged with such an offence.
