"It was late at night when I decided to go home to sleep after a couple of drinks. When I arrived at my one-roomed house, I was surprised to see that the door was broken. I did not take it seriously and entered into the room. Alas! I could not believe my eyes when I saw this drunken couple having sex in my room. They started a brawl and I rescued myself by using the panga that I keep in the room. The couple ran away naked and they left behind a pair of trousers, a cell phone and belt. I have kept their items and I know what I will do with them."

That was the horrible experience of Nyambeni Phaswana Sibara (34) of Makonde village, north of Thohoyandou, whose life was turned into a nightmare last Wednesday.

Mirror has learnt reliably that the couple, who also stay at Makonde, were so injured that they received treatment at the local Donald Fraser Hospital. The man is still nursing his injuries at home while his lover has been transferred for further treatment to Polokwane Provincial Hospital.

Nyambeni says what is mostly surprising is that he knows the couple very well, but he could not understand why they had done things that way. "They should have asked me for the key to the room; maybe I would have felt pity for them. Damaging my door and using my room were uncalled for."

Nyambeni said he was unsuspectingly drinking Mahafhe (home-brewed beer) at Mudzunga’s place. "The couple were also there and I never suspected anything. They then just disappeared and I thought they went home. I was surprised when I found them having sex in my house."

Nyambeni describes how the brawl took place: "The naked man came out of the blankets and started hitting me with a flowerpot that was inside the house. Within seconds, they were both on me and I took my reliable panga from under the mat (thovho) and stood in the door. I then hit them with the panga and they both ran away, leaving their belongings behind. No one even came to claim them the next day."