Magdalene Chamunorwa beat up the bride in her wedding gown after she caught him wedding the husband
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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