Brutal stabbing: Woman gives birth outside home while husband dies next to her

While a pregnant woman in labour was waiting for an Uber to take her to hospital, her husband was brutally stabbed to death in front of her in the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town.

Talent, whose surname has not been revealed, called a ride service to take his partner, Lillian Gono, to hospital because she was about to give birth early on Thursday morning.

However, the moment of celebration turned into tragedy when Talent was attacked.

Before they could even get into the car, Talent was stabbed multiple times by a group of men.

The tragic story was shared on Facebook by Toni Tresadern.

When Lillian’s water broke, Talent called an Uber to take her to Dunoon Hospital. When it arrived, Talent went outside to put their hospital bag in the car.

As he returned to help his wife into the car, a group of eight men attacked him. Tresadern said they beat him, before stabbing him in the head, stomach and chest. They then fled with his phone and the hospital bag.

Lillian, who was struggling with labour pains, struggled down the stairs to find her husband lying in a pool of blood.

She gave birth to a baby girl right next to her husband. “He passed away a few seconds after [his daughter] was born,” said Tresadern.

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Tresadern said she met Talent five years ago when he was selling pumpkins.

The couple were originally from Zimbabwe and the newborn baby, who has been named after her father, was their third child. According to Tresadern, the family were heading back home in April after securing funds to open a hardware store and welding business.

A BackaBuddy campaign has been started to raise funds for Lillian to return home and bury her husband. The campaign was started by Jeannie Ross, who says she met Lilian about five years ago when she hired her as a domestic worker.

Since then, Ross says, she and Lilian have become friends.

“Lilian now faces an unimaginable road ahead, raising three children without the man who was her anchor,” Ross said in her BackaBuddy post.

The target the campaign is aiming for is R35 000. At the time of publishing, R34 770 had been donated.

When contacted for comment on Friday morning, the police in the Western Cape said they were unaware of the incident.

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