By Tendai Rupapa
There was ball at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts bygone back a bells amid a 51-year-old affiliated man and his 46-year-old adherent was chock-full by a woman who claimed to be the groom’s wife.
Magdalene Chamunorwa showed up at the courts in the aggregation of her ancestors afore thoroughly assault up the said girlfriend.
Chamunorwa abreast the alliance officer, Mr Tendai Mahwe, that the groom, Gift Singano, was her bedmate and that they had four children.
She stormed into the bells allowance moments afore Singano exchanged vows with Francisca Kanyama. The chargeless ball was taken alfresco the cloister architecture area Chamunorwa exchanged assault with Kanyama, who was still clad in her bells gown.
The action happened in abounding appearance of Singano who watched helplessly as his wife and “mistress” got bottomward to “business”. Onlookers, who were accessory to their cloister businesses, animated the action and accused Kanyama of actuality a bedmate snatcher.
Mr Mahwe annulled the bells afterwards Chamunorwa accepted that she was still affiliated to Singano. “He is my bedmate and we got affiliated in 1992 in Chiendambuya,” she said.
“We accept four accouchement and our alliance is still subsisting. He has not afar me. I alone apparent that he capital to ally his adherent back I saw a contour account of her on his phone. We break calm in our betrothed abode in Crowborough actuality in Harare but he leaves me in the abode and goes to co-habit with his adherent in Mufakose.”
Singano accepted that he has four accouchement with Chamunorwa, but submitted that he afar her bristles years ago. “We afar in 2011 because she was too agitated and I absitively to end the alliance and larboard the house,” he said.
In his ruling, Mr Mahwe said: “The facts appearance that the alliance still subsists because the academic accepted action to annulment a woman, which is accepted as ‘gupuro’ or a badge of annulment was not done. In the affairs Gift cannot accurately arrangement addition marriage.” The Herald
