THE court case of a man accused of hacking his mother to death in Nompondo, Hluhluwe, has been postponed to 20 September in order for him to undergo mental observation.
This after Mfaniseni Nyawo told the Mtubatuba Regional Court on Tuesday that he does not recall how he ended up at his mother’s body with a bush knife in his hand.
In his statement read in court, the accused said he went to work that morning and his mother was still asleep.
When he returned in the evening, he knocked on the door of his mother’s rondavel and asked for food. When he was told there wasn’t any, he went to sleep.
The 38-year-old accused said the next thing he remembers was standing near his mother’s body which was laying in a pool of blood.
His niece, however, told the court that her uncle lost his job years ago.
She disputed his version of events, stating that on the day of the incident in February last year, the accused arrived home late and began banging on the door of his mother’s rondavel.
She says Nyawo’s stepfather peeped through the window and called for them to open the door.
‘We then heard noises because my uncle was assaulting his stepfather,’ she told the court.
Nyawo’s mother then allegedly ran to a neighbour to ask for help, but according to the niece the accused chased her and hacked her with a bush knife.
She died on the scene from wounds to the head and back.
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