Mom steals husband from own daughter

MBOMBELA – In a bizarre incident, a 24-year-old woman said she had been betrayed by her own mother who allegedly stole her 44-year-old husband and the father of her own two kids.

“My mother stole my husband. These are two people I should have been able to trust completely, but instead they went behind my back and betrayed me in the most painful and despicable way,” said Ms Maggy Sekgobela* of Matibidi.

This heart-breaking story has been the talk of the town for quite some time now, with community members saying how they were shocked and disappointed at the turn of events in this family.

Narrating her ordeal to Mpumalanga News, the victim, Maggy, said she was left an emotional wreck after discovering her husband of more than six years and her biological mother, Ms Mavis Zulu* in bed.

“I couldn’t believe how cruel that was. She has caused me and my children immense pain and suffering. What is even more painful is the fact that they went ahead and got married and my mother even uses his surname,” she said.

The affair between Maggy’s husband and her mother apparently started immediately after the death of her father last year, with Maggy’s mother opting to move closer to them in a town where her husband was working as a police officer.

“I don’t know how it all started but I had to bear the pain of watching my husband sneaking out of our bedroom to enjoy the forbidden fruit on the kitchen floor with my mother where she used to sleep,” she said.

Maggy said out of anger and due to the fact that her space was already occupied by the woman she called her mother, she had no option but to leave the two and came back home with her two children aged six and four.

“I’m trying to let it go and continue with my life but it is hard. I’m not working, and my ex-husband who is now my step- dad only gives us R400 a month for child support, which is far too little for our needs,” she complained.

Attempts to have her family intervene in the matter had proved fruitless.
“They are afraid of him because he is a policeman, and I also fear for my own safety.
“When the two happen to visit home they don’t even talk to me,” she said.

She said she had reported the matter at the Mkhuhlu Magistrate’s Court but had not received help. “I don’t care about him as he had chosen my mother over me, though I still want him to support his children.”

Mpumalanga News spoke to the mother on Tuesday morning, she asked, “Who are you to ask me those questions?”

Gogo Phephisile Maseko, leader of Traditional Healers Organisation in the country, said this was a disgrace in African culture. “How can a mother-in-law sleep with her son-in-law? This is a taboo in our culture, it is totally un-African.
* Not their real names