The ManicaPost
. . . woman sued for losses suffered
Ray Bande and Liberty Dube —
A MUTARE woman who masterminded the abortion of her ex lover’s wedding ceremony in August this year, will learn the hard way that when you embark on a path of revenge you dig two graves, after the ex-lover finally exchanged nuptial vows with the love of his life and is now suing the woman over losses suffered during the aborted wedding.
The wedding between 45-year-old Misheck Magumbeze of Natview Park in Mutare and Plaxcedes Mugwazi (33) was aborted after Charity Taremba Nyamajiwa (insert) sought a court order ex-parte interdicting Magumbeze and Mugwazi from tying the knot.
Magumbeze and Mugwazi, however, were all smiles after they finally exchanged nuptial vows at Mutare Civil Court last Friday.
The two wedded after a court ruling that Nyamajiwa’s argument was married to Magumbeze and their marriage still subsists, lacked merit.
“No evidence of transactions (lobola) was produced. Furthermore, all applicants’ (Nyamajiwa) witnesses indicated the first respondent
(Magumbeze) was never charged any beasts as part of the bride price. Beasts are an important component of the lobola payment.
“In the circumstances it is my finding that the applicant has failed to show that she was married to the first respondent in terms of the custom and therefore entitled to stop the parties from wedding under the Civil Marriages Act 5:11.
Accordingly, the application be and is hereby dismissed with no order as to costs,” reads part of Mutare senior magistrate Mrs Anne Ndiraya in her ruling.
An elated Magumbeze told The Weekender soon after last Friday’s wedding proceedings that he is now finalising papers to recover the costs incurred on the aborted wedding.
“I am happy that justice prevailed and we got what we (him and his wife) wanted. I have already started working on papers to approach the courts so that I recover all the money I lost when she sought to refuse us the right to wed,” said Magumbeze.
A paper outlining the costs incurred during the aborted wedding reveals that the couple lost $7 880, incurred in hiring wedding gowns, suits, tents, PA systems, interior decoration, catering and transport among other costs.
In August on the day Magumbeze and Mugwazi intended to wed, a commissioner of oath announced that the wedding had been stopped by an objection letter presented to him by the ‘first wife’ (Nyamajiya).
This resulted in Mugwazi melting into the arms of her relatives as she failed to come to terms with the announcement that resulted in the wedding being stopped.
In that letter, Nyamajiya argued that Magumbeze and Mugwazi were solemnising their marriage as part of a ploy to take away properties that she (Nyamajiya) co-owned with Magumbeze.
