IN THE beginning he treated her like an angel and she always felt spoilt.
But when he found out she was barren, their marriage and their happiness changed.
During one of their many fights he slashed her stomach, leaving her intestines hanging out!
Then he tied her to a chair and left her for dead.
Luckily, neighbours rescued her three days later.
Today, the 28-year-old woman from Block MM in Soshanguve, north of Tshwane, lives in fear. She wakes up every night in a cold sweat, unable to forget the horror.
“I want justice,” she said.
She said she met her husband (45) in 2013 in Ivory Park in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni. They got married the same year.
She said he soon started drinking heavily and became abusive. “On New Year’s Day in 2014 he beat me and pointed a gun at me. On 20 January that year he stabbed me in the stomach. My intestines were hanging out. He tied me to a chair and kept me in the house for three days,” she said.
She was saved by a four-year-old child who entered the room and screamed. Neighbours called the police.
She spent 18 months in hospital. “I need help. I’m living a life of misery. I’m always in pain and I can’t sleep because I have nightmares of him chasing me with a knife.”
The woman opened a case at Tembisa Police Station in September but later withdrew it.
When called for comment, the husband said: “Ungangitsheli amasimba” (don’t talk shit).
Gauteng police spokesman Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng advised the woman to report the case.
