Daily Sun (July 14 2014) - THE joyful sounds of a wedding ceremony brought tears to the eyes of sad Solly. Only the day before the love of his life had returned his ring and his watch to him and told him she was getting married to somebody else. BUT SOLLY DOESN'T WANT THE JEWELLERY. HE WANTS HIS BELOVED NOMETHI BACK IN HIS ARMS AGAIN!
Solly Baloyi (36) and Nomethi Khumalo (30) from Soshanguve, Tshwane had been together for many years and from their love was born a daughter who is now nine years old. Solly was happy when his lover joined a new charismatic church because he believed she would lead a positive life. But today Solly is alone.
Solly admits he and Nomethi had their ups and downs but mostly they were happy together. But one day he was called to his wife's new church. The pastor told him living together and sleeping together without being married was a sin. He heard that Nomethi's family agreed with the church.
Solly was instructed to pay lobola. That was in August last year.
"At the time I had R3 000 in my savings account for a driver's licence," said Solly.
"But because I didn't want to lose Nomethi I called the elders in my family and they went to her family.
I paid R2 000 as a deposit for her lobola," he said.
Solly was told he had to pay R12 000 for Nomethi to be his wife.
"They understood that I was not working and we promised that this year I would pay the remaining money," Solly said.
He said that things went sour in May and she got a protection order against him. And yesterday he had to listen with tears in his eyes as his traditional wife was married in church and wedding songs and ululations filled the air.
He only heard on Saturday that Nomethi was being whisked away by another man and her family was hosting their traditional wedding. "This is hurting. What about me and my money? I still have a letter of receipt of my lobola. Because I do not have money they are doing this to me," he said.
"My family went to them on Saturday and they said they would give me my money back." He said he can't even see his child. "This is wrong. How could you do this to me?" he asked.
When Daily Sun called Nomethi's mother, Betty, she put the phone down. When Nomethi picked up the phone she shouted that we should not bother them. "Stop calling my mother. It's over between me and Solly," she said. Solly said he no longer wanted the money.
"But when things go bad, she mustn't come crying to me," he said.
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