‘My wife beats me up’

MBABANE - Homeboy Vilakati is a frustrated man. His wife has allegedly denied him conjugal rights for five years.

Besides this, he is allegedly being forced to put up with violence from her.

He claims she is violent such that “on July 17, 2008 with the sole intention of killing me, my wife had a bush knife underneath a pillow and since that date, I am afraid of her.”
The two got married in 2004.

He says the joy was short-lived as his wife Nonophile changed. He says his wife denied him sex.
She did not stop there as she physically and emotionally abused him. Nonophile Vilakati and Homeboy Vilakati were married to each other under the civil rites marriage, in community of property at Malkerns, on March 27, 2004 and the marriage still subsists.

He says immediately after the wedding, his wife had different plans for the important conjugal rights which he claims she denied him. Homeboy says Nonophile would beat the living daylights out of him such that on many occasions he reported her to the police.
He, however, submits that the Mbabane police to whom he always ran, failed to reconcile or reprimand his wife.

“I reported the fights at the Mbabane Police station and the police failed to reconcile us,” he said.
This is according to court papers Vilakati filed through Makhosi C. Vilakati Attorneys recently. The matter is yet to be heard in court.

Vilakati alleges in his papers that his wife had a tendency to mysteriously desert her matrimonial home.
He says this began immediately after their wedding in 2004. “She had the tendency to maliciously desert our matrimonial home at Mpolonjeni without my consent.”
He submits that as a result of the fights he was forced to sell their matrimonial home where the couple stay with their two children.

“I decided to sell our home at Mpolonjeni and then relocated to Ngwane Park where I currently stay.”
He said that after the Ngwane Park relocation, on or around June 2009 Nonophile continued with her unbecoming behaviour.

“Nonophile and I sleep together on the same bed but she is denying me conjugal obligation.”
He said that this was contrary to his belief that the, “personal consequence of a marriage is that the spouses are obliged to live together as husband and wife.”

He also claims that his wife has lost sympathetic care and affection for him such that the couple could no longer afford each other mutual services.
“On or around October 23, 2009 Nonophile locked me inside the flat we are renting at Ngwane Park and drove away with the motor vehicle that I am currently using.”

She allegedly returned home on Monday, October 26, 2009 with the car.
“She never bothered to tell me about her whereabouts.”
He says he now fears that his life is in danger.

“I also fear that I will end up assaulting Nonophile,” he says in the papers.
He then requested the court to grant him an order on the following terms:
a)     Grant him an Order for Judicial Separation from bed and board;
b) Directing Nonophile to find alternative residence within (7) seven days from the date of the said Order in prayer (a)
c) Granting him custody of the children and Nonophile visitation rights over the children born from the         marriage.