Zimbabwean Woman Murdered In South Africa In Front Of Her 4 Year Old Son

Zimbabwean woman murdered in South Africa in front of her 4-year-old son.

A Zimbabwean woman was murdered while her four-year-old son was watching when unknown men slit her throat and stabbed her several times before taking her cellphone and Wi-Fi router on Saturday afternoon in Peitermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal.

Chino Matambaziko (54) who is the husband of the now deceased, Caroline Chenai Mubvakure (34) said when he returned home after taking their car to the mechanic, he found his son covered in his mother’s blood.

“I put down the groceries and ran to the kitchen. She was lying in a pool of blood and her skirt was up to her waist so I pulled it down and called her friends for help,” he said.

According to News, Matambaziko said Mubvakure’s body was still warm so he thought they might still be able to save her but she was already gone.
“I think my son tried to wake her up when the killers left and that’s how he got blood on his clothes because he wasn’t harmed except for a small bump on his chin, but he hasn’t told us how it came about,” he said.
“I don’t think they were trying to rob, I believe they just wanted to kill but I don’t know what the motive was,” he said.

For nine years, the family has lived on the property and had never had a break-in. According to relatives and friends who gathered at the house following the incident, the deceased lived in an outside building at the back of the property and it did not make sense how someone knew she was home.

“They jumped over the gate and there was blood at the top but I’m sure whether one of them got injured or it was my wife’s blood”.

“I am going to miss her terribly and I pray that God gives me the strength to raise our son the was she would have wanted him to grow up. I’m not going to take him home (Zimbabwe), he has to live with me so that I can try and love him enough for both of us,” he said.

Searching for greener pastures, the couple migrated to South Africa from Zimbabwe in the early 2000s.
No witnesses to the crime have been found. Matambaziko could not come to terms with the incident and kept questioning why someone would kill for a cellphone and a router.

Mutambaziko added Mubvakure had wanted to be buried in their home in Zimbabwe but he did not know whether they would be allowed to do due to the COVID-19 restrictions on cross border travel.
Mubvakure was a cleaner in the offices of a Pietermaritzburg law firm and Mutabaziko runs a plumbing business.