/ 31 October 2000

MAN BURNS GRANNY TO ASHES

AN unemployed man who allegedly burnt his grandmother to ashes after she refused to let him look for work in “evil” Johannesburg has been remanded in custody. Goodwill Nyundu, 20, of KaBokweni near White River in Mpumalanga, has refused to make a statement to police since his arrest on September 5 and has been unable to raise R3000 bail. His grandmother was only one who brought in an income with her pension money and looked after him and his unemployed father. After his 60-year-old granny, Poulinah Msibi, allegedly told him Johannesburg was evil and people who left to work there only ever returned in a coffin, Nyundu allegedly went to the local filling station, bought petrol worth R20 and poured it over his grandmother and set her alight. – African Eye News Service