Johannesburg- Popular TV actor Given Stuurman has allegedly threatened to kill the mother of his child and daughter and commit suicide in one of their dramatic domestic violence episodes in Joburg recently.
The actor, who played Kgosi in e.tv’s flagship soapie, Scandal, also threw a cellphone at the woman after hurling a barrage of profanities at her.
He also threatened to kill her dad and her uncle or anyone who will try to protect her.
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The thespian’s alleged threats are contained in the interim protection order obtained by his child’s mother in the Booysens magistrate’s court in August.
In the protection order, which Sunday World has seen, the woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, said she went to the actor’s parental home in Bertrams, Joburg, on August 18 and asked him to give her money to pay for the cellphone she had bought him on credit.
“He tried to hit me with the phone, missed and hit the wall, which then led to the screen of the phone cracking [sic],” reads the order.
She said when she asked for her daughter’s clothes and toys so she could leave the house, the actor, who played Speedy in the well-known SABC1 drama Tshisa, told her to leave and come back alone so that he could kill her.
“I have been held aggressively and pushed around most of the time when we were in his place of residence,” reads the order.
She said after leaving his house, Stuurman sent her a WhatsApp message in which he threatened her again.
The message, whose copy she attached to the order, reads in part: “I’m literally going to kill you and anyone who protects you – whether your dad or your uncle …”
The woman said she was convinced he would kill her.
“Given is an aggressive individual who swears and pushes me when angry. He shouts in my face and always threatens to hit and kill me [sic].
“He is always saying that if he cannot take care of his daughter, then no one else should be allowed to do so, he would rather kill himself, my daughter and I,” reads the order.
Pleading for the provision of the order, the woman said her and her daughter’s lives were in danger because Stuurman smokes weed and turns violent when high on the substance.
Speaking to Sunday World, the woman confirmed that she had obtained the order, noting she was trying to serve it to him.
“On several occasions, I went to his house with the police to serve it on him, but his mother always said that he was not home to sign it,” she said, adding that she had approached the same court to also file for maintenance, but was told to return at the end of next month because the system was down.
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