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Sharon Buwerimwe, Court Reporter
A POLICE officer from Bulawayo, who brought pictures to court to prove that his superior was having an affair with his wife, was yesterday granted a protection order against his former boss.
Mr Taurai Tapedzanyika, a police officer whose rank was not revealed in court, told West Commonage magistrate, Ms Tancy Dube, that he needed a protection order against Stanford Madzora.
It was said in court that Madzora, who was a Superintendent, resigned from his job as the case was still being investigated, fearing disciplinary action.
The magistrate granted the protection order and warned Madzora against verbally and physically abusing Mr Tapedzanyika. She told Madzora to stay away from his ex-subordinate’s wife.
Madzora accused Mr Tapedzanyika’s wife of texting him.
“Tapedzanyika should control his wife too, she also likes communicating with me and spending time with me,” he said.
Last week, Madzora denied having an affair with Mr Tapedzanyika’s wife and said he is dating a woman who looks like his ex-subordinate’s wife.
He said the pictures brought to court of him and his ex-subordinate’s wife as evidence were taken a long time ago.
“Your Worship, those photos that have been brought to court are not of his wife. Those photos were taken long back in 2016 and the woman looks like his wife,” Madzora said.
Mr Tapedzanyika told the court that he is married to Mrs Sphiwe Tapedzanyika and they have four children. He said the illicit affair between Madzora and his wife was causing problems in his marriage.
He said Madzora assaulted him after he found him with his wife inside a car and he took pictures of them as evidence.
“Your Worship, the illicit affair between Madzora and my wife is causing a lot of suffering to our children and families. He has groomed, hardened and stripped my wife of the moral character of a married woman. She is now very arrogant towards me and unnecessarily rough to our children,” Mr Tapedzanyika said.
“She no longer does her household duties as she spends much of her time with Madzora. She has now delegated all of the household duties to the children leaving them with less time to do their school work. Thus our children are now performing badly at school.”
Mr Tapedzanyika said his wife has developed a habit of arriving home late and sleeping away from home on weekends.
“All this is planned by Madzora in order to humiliate, provoke and frustrate me. This affects me and my children very badly as the children want to spend time with their mother,” he said.
“I’m not the only victim of Madzora as he has also destroyed other police officers’ marriages after breaking up with his wife Beulah Zibwi. He is trouble everywhere.
“I pray that this honourable court grants me a protection order for Madzora to stop communicating with, accompanying my wife in a car for any reason, stops abusing me physically and for their affair to stop.” — @sharonbuwe
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