Husband claims wife fooled him

Gamuchirai Bhachi

A HARARE man has claimed he was fooled into believing that they were staying with his wife’s brother when he was her boyfriend.

Rodwin Mukaratima, a football coach in Domboshava, revealed this while responding to accusations of abuse levelled against him by his estranged wife, Lecture Chikerema.

Lecture applied for a peace order against Rodwin. She told the court that he was in the habit of going away for one or two weeks, and then assaulting and calling her a prostitute when he returned.

“He can disappear for a week or two and when he returns, he assaults me, saying I’m a prostitute.

“He even sends messages to my relatives saying I’m a prostitute.”

Rodwin said Lecture’s application for a peace order was part of her cover-up strategy after he discovered her romantic affair.

“She is lying that I stole her mattress and gas tank. I took them because they are mine.

“I have never insulted or assaulted her despite her cheating on me with a man she introduced as her brother to me.

“I once found them at midnight with blankets in the lounge and asked them why they were still up, and she told me that they were praying.

“The children were sleeping on the floor,” said Rodwin.

He said his 11-year-old son was the one who told him that the two were being intimate.

Magistrate Sharon Mashavira asked Rodwin why he took the gas tank, which is used to cook for his three children, and he said he was angry and promised to return it today.

The magistrate granted Lecture the peace order and advised them to seek marriage counselling.