Story by Gay Matambo
Residents of Tshovani in Chiredzi Town were left in shock after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death at a local beer hall Saturday evening, after a misunderstanding.
Eyewitnesses present at the scene where Wilson Mushava was stabbed to death after a heated argument over a beer bottle gave harrowing accounts of the incident.
“We went to the beerhall around 12 midnight and that’s when whe saw two people fighting. He tried to stop the fight that was happening, that’s when he was stabbed for trying to stop a fight,” said a witness.
“We are deeply hurt by what transpired and we lost a colleague who was just trying to stop people from fighting and hurting each other, that’s how he got stabbed. He was stabbed for being a peacemaker,” said another.
ZBC News caught up with the deceased’s family members who are still struggling to come to terms with the incident that cost the life of one of their own.
“I was called in the morning and they asked me if I was his sister, the caller then told me that my brother had been stabbed to death. His colleagues then took me to the scene where he was killed and there was blood all over and the police explained to me what transpired. They took me to see his body and I’m still in shock,” narrated the deceased’s sister Ms Loice Mushava.
Meanwhile, the suspected murderer is yet to be apprehended.
