Hell was let loose at the Harare
Magistrates’ Courts yesterday after a wife stormed the wedding between
her husband and his girlfriend.
The wife identified as Magdalene
Chamunorwa showed up at the courts in the company of her relatives and
thoroughly beat up the said girlfriend.
She revealed to the shocked marriage
officer, Mr Tendai Mahwe, that the groom, Gift Singano, was her husband
and that they had four children.
According to The Herald, she stormed
into the wedding room moments before Singano exchanged vows with
Francisca Kanyama. The free drama was taken outside the court building
where Chamunorwa exchanged blows with Kanyama, who was still clad in her
wedding gown.
The fight happened in full view of Singano who watched helplessly as his wife and “mistress” got down to“business”. Onlookers, who were attending to their court businesses, cheered the fight and accused Kanyama of being a husband snatcher.
Mr Mahwe cancelled the wedding after Chamunorwa proved that she was still married to Singano. “He is my husband and we got married in 1992 in Chiendambuya,” she said.
“We
have four children and our marriage is still subsisting. He has not
divorced me. I only discovered that he wanted to marry his girlfriend
when I saw a profile picture of her on his phone. We stay together in
our matrimonial house in Crowborough here in Harare but he leaves me in
the house and goes to co-habit with his girlfriend in Mufakose.”
Singano confirmed that he has four children with Chamunorwa, but submitted that he divorced her five years ago. “We divorced in 2011 because she was too violent and I decided to end the marriage and left the house,” he said.
In his ruling, Mr Mahwe said: “The
facts show that the marriage still subsists because the formal
customary procedure to divorce a woman, which is known as ‘gupuro’ or a
token of divorce was not done. In the circumstances Gift cannot lawfully
contract another marriage.”
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