THE family of a dead man has applied for his exhumation and reburial after he spoke to them from beyond the grave, a newspaper reported.
Steven Nyakunhuwa, originally from Honde Valley in Manicaland, died in 2009 and was buried at Bulawayo’s Hyde Park Cemetery.
But his family says his spirit has possessed his 26-year-old son who regularly slips into a trance to accuse his second wife of killing him while demanding to be reburied, the Chronicle newspaper reported.
A relative told the newspaper: “When Kudzanayi, the son from the first marriage, gets possessed by his father's spirit, he speaks and acts exactly like his father.
“The spirit demands to know why the second wife fed him a love potion which killed him. At times, it tries to strangle the woman.
“Steven said, through Kudzanayi, that there would be no peace for everyone if his body was not exhumed and reburied in Manicaland.”
His second wife, Fadzai, fled the matrimonial home in Nkulumane after her stepson attacked her while possessed by her father’s spirit. He also smashed 16 window panes.
He was arrested and later released without charge after the police decided “what they were seeing was beyond their understanding,” the Chronicle added.
The dead man’s uncle, Nobbie Kwadi, 61, said: “We are not fighting with anyone and we do not want to say things that will later cause quarrels among relatives.
“We can only tell you that the body will be exhumed on Friday. It was supposed to be done last week but there was a missing document in our application to the Bulawayo City Council, for permission to dig up the grave at Hyde Park Cemetery.”