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Thubelihle Mabhena Court Reporter
A BULAWAYO woman who was assaulted by her lover’s wife after she was found in bed with a married man has applied for a protection order to stop further beatings.Sarudzai Mutsi of Lobengula yesterday dragged her lover’s wife, Thokozile Mpala, of the same suburb to court to stop the woman from physically and verbally abusing her.

She made the application after she was found nude under the sheets after her best friend tipped Mpala about her husband’s extra marital affair.

Mutsi told Bulawayo magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure that she had dated Mpala’s husband unaware that he was a married man.

She added that after she discovered that he was cheating on his wife, she ended the relationship.

“Your worship, I ended the relationship with Mpala’s husband but she keeps coming to my residence threatening to beat me up. Two weeks back she arrived with an iron bar intending to assault me but I ran away,” said Mutsi.

“I ‘m applying for a protection order so that she will be barred from physically, verbally abusing me and coming to my residence.”
She said Mpala even pounced on her recently and assaulted her on the shoulder.

Mashavakure granted her the protection order and told both parties to maintain peace with each other and cautioned them against going to each other’s residences.

Mpala said Mutsi was aware that she was committing adultery when she pounced on her.

“Your worship, Mutsi’s best friend is the one who told me about my husband’s affair with her and when I got the address I went to her house. I was traumatised when I found my husband naked in her blankets and I left them without a word,” said Mpala.

“I went back to the residence three hours later and my husband had disappeared. I confronted Mutsi and asked her why she dated my husband yet knowing he was married to me but she sneered at me. We started fighting because she said they had been having the affair for seven years and she even got pregnant and aborted.”

She told the court that Mutsi was   lying that she had ended the relationship with her husband as she still communicates with him