MOM SCALDS ABUSIVE SON (24) WITH BOILING WATER

MBASHENI – When a woman’s anger reaches boiling point... An allegedly abused mother let rip and scalded her abusive son with boiling water at Mbasheni, in the Nothern Hhohho Region.

Isabel Nxumalo had just boiled water to take a bath when she was suddenly compelled to instead, splash the water on her son, a 24-year-old pupil of Ntfonjeni High School on Saturday, April 27.

Nxumalo said her son, Simiso, commonly known as Mahlosana, had returned home from a local family gathering, and disturbed peace at the home, while making demands for food.

Recounting the events that led to the incident, Nxumalo said Mahlosana had initially left home for the King’s Birthday celebration at Buhleni on April 26 and had returned home inebriated.

He was carrying his favourite traditional brew, umcombotsi, stored in a two-litre container.

Inebriated

Due to the inebriated state, Mahlosana had retired to his room, which is outside the main house where the rest of his family – mother, sister, grandchildren sleep.
Then in the morning he went to a Ndwandwe homestead where there was a family event and spent the whole day, only to return home allegedly drunk at about 8pm, raising hell for his family.

He is said to have first insisted on sitting on the couch yet he was too dirty, to the extent that he was greased with meat fat on his clothes. However, his elder brother is said to have taken him out of the house.
“He demanded food, as usual and we gave it to him, but he fed it to the dogs and demanded food again.

‘‘He then came back, banging the windows, demanding another plate of food, but we had none at the time, so I asked my daughter to make two eggs and porridge for him just to calm him down. I do not know what he did with that meal because he came back demanding more food,” she alleged.
Insults
She said while demanding food again, her son had gone on his usual rant and hurled insults at her, calling her a harlot and witch.
“He started banging the windows and caused a lot of commotion at the home, until his elder brother tried to contain him and pushed him away. However, he was relentless as he continued insulting me and wanted to force entry into the house. Since on previous occasions, he had carried a knife and threatened to stab me, I feared the worst.”
Dangerous
She said she had tried to ascertain what her son was carrying that would be dangerous to the family but it was too dark for her to see anything.
“When he tried to push his way into the house, I lost control and grabbed a jug with the water I was about to bath with and poured it on him. From that time he ran into his house and stopped abusing us,” she said.
Paramedics
Nxumalo said the following day she called paramedics and asked them to take her son to hospital.
“The paramedics asked to speak to him over the phone, but he told them not to come because he did not want to go to hospital. The paramedics said they would not spend money on fuel for an uncertain emergency because it was clear that he did not want to go to hospital. My son then left the home for a popular drinking spot known as Kadandane, still in pain from the scald wounds.
She said she then called a member of the community police, Bheki Gwebu, and reported that she had scalded her son with water and he did not want to go to hospital.
She said it was Gwebu who called the Royal Eswatini Police Service, who responded promptly, picked him from the drinking spot and took him to the Pigg’s Peak Government Hospital.
Nxumalo said doctors had intended to admit him for the scald wounds but after he was bandaged, he sneaked out.
Nxumalo spots a cast on her left foot, and said she had sustained injuries during one of her son’s abusive moments.
She said he had arrived home, demanding food and had started vandalising her cupboard, breaking its doors.
Breaking
“I gave him his food, but he had insisted on taking meat from the plates of all the other children’s food, something that I objected to because his plate had meat too. He was breaking the cupboard until I tried to push him away. In the scuffle, I then kicked an iron bar and fractured two of my toes,” she alleged.
Her daughter, Lomawa, confirmed that her brother’s behaviour was unruly, though she said this did not warrant the discipline he eventually suffered.
“I cannot say he deserved this, but I can attest to the abuse my mother and the rest of the family suffered in the hands of my brother. When he is not drunk, he is fine, but after taking alcohol he becomes unbearable and embarks on his insultive rants, while abusing us.
“He is responsible for my mother’s injuries,” she said pointing at her mother’s leg. He calls her with terrible insults” and this pains us as a family.
She showed Swazi News several windows of her mother’s house, which she alleged had been broken by Mahlosana, while demanding food.
“This is not to say we starve him. He is just fond of breaking windows and abusing the family when he is drunk,” she said.
Nxumalo said at one time she had taken her son to the Pigg’s Peak police and asked that they give him counselling to stop his abusive behaviour. Despite these efforts, she said he had not stopped his habit.
Chaotic
Meanwhile, Gwebu, the community police member, confirmed that Mahlosana had a ‘chaotic’ behaviour in the community.
“At one time he stole umcombotsi belonging to a drinking spot and had also stolen chickens from a certain homestead. His family has called me to assist on numerous occasions when he starts abusing them,” he said.
Abused
Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said the mother had not been arrested by yesterday because police were still reviewing the merits of the case after learning that she was abused by the child.
“We are, however, pursuing the matter and will advise accordingly as investigations are ongoing,” she said.

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