Tragic Stabbing: Zimbabwean Woman Gives Birth While Husband is Fatally Attacked in Cape Town
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In a heart-wrenching incident, a pregnant Zimbabwean woman in labour witnessed her husband’s brutal murder as they awaited an Uber to take her to the hospital. The attack occurred in the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town early on Thursday morning.
Talent, whose surname has not been disclosed, called a ride service to take his partner, Lillian Gono, to Dunoon Hospital. However, their moment of celebration turned into tragedy when Talent was attacked before they could even get into the car.
According to a Facebook post by Toni Tresadern, Talent was outside placing their hospital bag in the car when a group of eight men attacked him. They beat him and then stabbed him in the head, stomach, and chest, before fleeing with his phone and the hospital bag.
Lillian, who was struggling with labour pains, found her husband lying in a pool of blood and gave birth to a baby girl right next to him. “He passed away a few seconds after [his daughter] was born,” Tresadern stated.
Tresadern mentioned she met Talent five years ago when he was selling pumpkins. The couple, originally from Zimbabwe, were planning to return home in April after securing funds to open a hardware store and welding business. The newborn baby, named after her father, is their third child.
A BackaBuddy campaign has been started by Jeannie Ross to raise funds for Lillian to return home and bury her husband. Ross, who met Lillian five years ago when she hired her as a domestic worker, said, “Lilian now faces an unimaginable road ahead, raising three children without the man who was her anchor.”
The campaign aims to raise R35 000, and at the time of publication, R34 770 had been donated. When contacted for comment, the police in the Western Cape said they were unaware of the incident.
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