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Man severely injured in arson attack
Mr Mbilu Mutholini is recuperating in hospital after sustaining third-degree burns.
“I quickly dashed out of the house, only to notice that the whole yard was engulfed in The members of the Mutholini household in smoke and fire,” he said. “I heard my uncle’s Muila-Gumani village are living in fear after voice crying weakly for help, and I stormed into their house was gassed and petrol-bombed in the house where he was and managed to pull the middle of the night. him out.” The incident, which happened about a week With the help of neighbours, Thabo started ago, left one family member, Mr Mbilu Mutholi- extinguishing the fire with buckets of water and ni (51), with third-degree burns. His nephew, Mr sand. They also found a 9kg-sized silver-grey gas Thabo Mutholini, said that he was fast asleep cylinder, which the criminals had allegedly used in a separate thatched rondavel when he was during the incident. A beer bottle filled with awakened by the noise of the fire burning down sand, petrol and a cloth strip was also discovered the house in which he was sleeping. in the house. “We are 100% sure that this is the work of evil people who want to see us dead,” Thabo said. The incident took place amid suspected family squabbles, which also centre around a court case. According to Thabo, his uncle has been at loggerheads with his stepdaughter since during the burial of his wife (and mother to the stepdaughter), who passed away in June this year. “The stepdaughter, who was staying at her husband’s place at the time of her mother’s death, had come along with her husband to live at the home that my unThe sister of Mr Mbilu Mutholini, Ms Elisa Maphyan- cle had shared with his late wife,” Thabo ya, shares the family’s pain with Makhado Municipal- said. “They argued with us during the funeral. They said the property – which ity’s mayor, Cllr Shonisani Sinyosi. By Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
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included the house and some cars – belonged to the stepdaughter’s mother and that my uncle was just a parasite who clung to the deceased’s flesh when she was still alive.” In the meantime, Mr Mutholini had moved from the shared house around June this year. He reported the matter to the police, who then brought the case before the Magistrate’s Court. On 5 October, the court made a ruling in favour of Mutholini, ordering the stepdaughter to vacate the house by 22 December to allow Mutholini to take permanent occupation on that very date. Thabo thanked all his neighbours for assisting him in extinguishing the fire. “It was a chaotic fire and all the people who came didn’t use their cell phones to snap pictures of our tragedy to make a show-off on social media,” he said. “They showed us genuine help and care.” The family further reported the matter to the Tshitale police station. The provincial police’s spokesperson, Col Moatshe Ngoepe, confirmed the incident and said the police had arrested a 19-year-old suspect on a charge of arson. “We are still establishing if the suspect can be linked to more cases in the policing area,” Col Ngoepe said. Makhado Municipality’s mayor, Cllr Shonisani Sinyosi, visited the Mutholini family and expressed
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words of sympathy on behalf of the municipality. “We support the Mutholini family during this difficult time,” she said. “We also wish Mr Mutholini a speedy recovery. In the Makhado area we are peace-loving people and we always want people to feel safe in their respective homes. We therefore condemn acts of crime in the strongest terms.”
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