dyton mupawaenda
Tafara Chibanda
A MAN, who spent two years working in South Africa to provide for his family, was shocked on his return home to find his wife in bed with her lover.
Incredibly, the wife even sought a protection order against him, claiming that his return has put her life in danger.
However, her attempts to use the Harare Civil Court, to try and cover her tracks and keep her estranged husband at bay, have been dismissed by the court.
Presiding magistrate, Joana Mukwesha, threw out Anastancia’s application by ruling that there was insufficient evidence to show that her life was at risk. But, for Thomas Sithole, the court relief will not likely help him as he deals with what is probably his darkest hour.
He returned from South Africa on June 4, desperate to unite with a family he had left behind for two years, but was shocked to learn that his wife Anastancia was having an extra-marital affair with another man.
Devastated and heartbroken, Sithole confronted Anastancia whose response as to try and silence him with a protection order.
Sithole told the Harare Civil Court that he was his wife in bed with another man and ordered her to go and stay with her parents.
“I feel betrayed and destroyed,” Sithole said.
“I sacrificed everything for my family only to find my wife in bed with another man.
“I have never insulted or assaulted her since the incident, I just want a divorce cause I cannot stay with an adulterous woman, there is no longer trust in our marriage.”
Anastancia did not deny the affair.
Instead, she sought a protection order so she cannot be chased away from their matrimonial home.
“I pleading with the court to grant me a protection order so that I can be protected from my husband, he did not take things light when he saw me with another man,” she said.
“He harasses and threatens to kill me, I am sick and tired of his abuse.”
Bongani Ndlovu
Mathew Masinge