Pretoria - He picked her up from what is known as a Mavuso stokvel - an event where women agree to a sexual transaction - and he took her to his room in Soshanguve.
But not long after they had sex, he saw foam coming from her mouth. Next thing he knew, the young woman was dead, leaving the 29-year-old man in a panic.
The man, who didn’t want to be named, said he was a regular at Mavuso stokvels, held in different locations across Tshwane’s townships. So popular is the phenomenon that Hammanskraal has a reputation of being the “Mavuso capital”.
The man, who lives in a backyard room on his mother’s property, said he had left home to go to the Mavuso in Mabopane at about 10pm on Tuesday. The stokvel carried on until the early hours of Wednesday, during which time he had spotted a woman who tickled his fancy.
He negotiated with her, and she agreed to go home with him.
“I recently broke up with my girlfriend and mother of my child, and therefore thought I would console myself in the arms of another woman,” he said.
He said the decision was mutual and, in accordance with the stokvel custom, he bought alcohol which they drank together before “deciding it was time for sex”.
He took the woman to his room where, he said, they had sex. “Everything was good after sex, but soon after falling asleep the woman woke me up and said she had a headache.
“I gave her painkillers that I had in my room. We then rested for a while, hoping for another session once she started feeling better.
“However, she started complaining that she was not well. Foam was coming out of her mouth. She choked and then died, just like that.”
He said he “freaked out” and did not know how what to do. “I called my mother, but when she got to my room, it was already too late; the woman had already died.”
His mother called the police, who arrived with pathology vehicles soon afterwards and took the body away.
The man was taken to Soshanguve police station accompanied by his mother.
“I was still in shock, so my mother spoke to the police. No case was opened,” he said.
The man said he cursed the day he got involved in Mavuso and said he would never participate in the stokvel again.
“If sex means risking being in bed with a dead woman, then it is not worth it. I still cannot believe there was a corpse in my bed, more so of a person whose name I didn’t even know.”
The family members of the dead woman were tracked through her cellphone and called to identify the body, which had been taken in for a post-mortem.
Meanwhile, speaking at a June 16 event at Orlando Stadium, President Jacob Zuma condemned the prevalence of sex stokvels and said women needed to be protected from such activities.
“Patrons at taverns take young women home overnight at a price. We cannot and should not subject our children to this abuse and danger,” Zuma said.
“Government will soon launch a campaign targeting young women to educate them against such practices. We also need to educate men against using women as objects.”
Pretoria News