George
Chimwayange
A man from Summerton in
Masvingo recently appeared before Masvingo Magistrate Patience
Silaigwana on charges of assaulting a fellow villager after a dispute over allegations
of unfair distribution of the presidential inputs.
William Manenji (38)
and Esnath Sibiya (23) from Barclayfield in Summerton faced charges of assaulting
their neighbour Tracy Manyanye (32).
The case was postponed
to 27 May as some of the witnesses were unavailable.
Circumstances are that on
October 25 at around 09:00hrs, Manenji had a misunderstanding with Manyanye
over the issue of presidential inputs which she felt she too was supposed to
receive.
When Manyanye asked for
the reason why she was being excluded from the inputs scheme, Manenji told her she
was not attending Zanu PF meetings hence the exclusion.
The argument began to
degenerate and Manenji started beating Manyanye with bare hands twice on the
left and right cheek.
After hearing that
Manyanye had had an argument with her husband Manenji, Sibiya went to Manyanye’s
homestead and started shouting at her before hitting her on the back with a log.
All this happened in
the eyes of Stella Maseko who hurriedly came and tried to restrain them from fighting.
Manyanye sustained
invisible injuries and a medical report was produced in court as exhibit of the
assault.
