A man has been arrested for allegedly beating his daughter to stupor after he caught her having sex in his house with her boyfriend.

Felix Hadebe from Matshobana in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe had reportedly walked in to meet his daughter Zanele Hadebe, 22, and their neighbour, Tanaka Moyo, 30,  having sex and he wasn’t amused.

Hadebe attacked the pair who cut short their act, but Moyo managed to escape after a few hits leaving his lover at the mercy of her angry father.

Using a metal rod, Hadebe struck them hard but because Zanele was at home and was slow to react she was heavily beaten. Her cries were heard by neighbours but they came a little bit late. The only thing that could be done was to ferry her to Mpilo Central Hospital.

For the offence, Hadebe was arrested. Zanele who has since recovered from the nasty beating told B-Metro that her father should have first knocked instead of barging into her bedroom.

“He should have knocked because I have the right to privacy because it’s my room,” she said.

She believes that’s not the way her father should have reacted in the first place.

“Anger should not make a parent beat a child this way,” she added.

With bruises all over her body she can’t do house chores or even properly bath. With her father behind the slammer, she felt pressure to drop charges and let him come home. But that does not change her father’s perception — if she goes out of line he will discipline her again.

“I will not allow such nonsense in my household, if she wants to behave in such a manner she must get married so that she can do whatever she wants in her own house,” he said.

The sneaky boyfriend thinks her girlfriend’s father belongs behind bars.

“He is a violent father who abuses his daughter, he must be arrested,” said Moyo.

Apparently, it was a known thing that whenever Hadebe was at work, Moyo and Zanele played “husband and wife” at the house.