Soldier bashes wife for asking for money: Evicts her from matrimonial home

Hazel Marimbiza

A soldier husband has been very explosive to the extent that the wife reported him to the police.  

Lorrain Ndou and Nixon Zimutsa’s marriage seemed to be going smoothly for the first few years as Zimutsa would provide for the family well.

However, trouble began when Zimutsa who is a soldier stationed at Khumalo Barracks abandoned his normal duties of providing monthly for the family.

Every time Ndou asks for money she gets bashed.

Their relationship has become so sour such that Ndou sometimes moves out of her matrimonial home after being bashed.

“I am customarily married to Nixon Zimutsa and my problem with my husband is that he is violent and physically assaults me whenever I ask for money. On top of that every time we have problems he chases me out of the home. 

“He always destroys property when he gets angry and does not financially support the family,” said Ndou.

In his ruling presiding Western Commonage magistrate Lungile Ncube granted Ndou a protection order in which he ordered Zimutsa to refrain from verbally and physically assaulting Ndou.