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Siphephile Ndlovu

Lethokuhle Moyo Court Reporter
A MAN saw red after his wife applied makeup while making herself beautiful for a friend’s wedding.
Siphephile Ndlovu, 35, of Pumula East in Bulawayo, told a court yesterday that she was beaten black and blue by her crazed malayitsha husband, Sikhumbuzo Ndlovu.

Sikhumbuzo does not want his wife to paint her face with cosmetics like other women.

Siphephile, who was granted a peace order against her husband, said he had a history of violence against her as she took her beauty fight to court.

“He doesn’t want me to wear makeup. The other day, I was preparing to go to a wedding where I had been invited as I had done decorations at the venue. I went home to dress up.

“When he came in, he saw that I had put on eye shadow and he just started assaulting me,” she said.

Sometime in 2013, she said she was admitted to hospital after she fell off the couple’s car which was in motion as she tried to escape from being beaten by her husband.

“I’m staying with my husband but there’s no peace at our home. I’m asking this court to help me in this situation because I’m being abused even over small things,” she said.

Siphephile added that her husband was disrespectful towards her relatives.

“Our relatives also don’t want to visit anymore saying they’re not happy about my husband’s attitude towards them,” she added.

Ndlovu was not in court to hear the magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure grant a default peace order against him.

The peace order bars him from making any verbal threats or physically harming his wife — even when she wears makeup.