Jambanja pacourt
By Tendai Rupapa
In a fete that could make the late Marko Sibanda green with envy, there was drama at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts Wednesday when a wedding between a 51-year-old married man and his 46-year-old girlfriend was stopped by a woman who claimed to be the groom’s wife.
While the late singer sang Jambanja pahotera; this time it was ‘Jambanja pacourt” when Magdalene Chamunorwa showed up at the courts in the company of her relatives before thoroughly beating up the said girlfriend.
Chamunorwa informed the marriage officer, Mr Tendai Mahwe, that the groom, Gift Singano, was her husband and that they had four children.
She stormed into the wedding room moments before Singano exchanged vows with Francisca Kanyama.
The free drama was taken outside the court building where Chamunorwa exchanged blows with Kanyama, who was still clad in her wedding gown.
The fight happened in full view of Singano who watched helplessly as his wife and “mistress” got down to “business”. Onlookers, who were attending to their court businesses, cheered the fight and accused Kanyama of being a husband snatcher.
Mr Mahwe cancelled the wedding after Chamunorwa proved that she was still married to Singano.
“He is my husband and we got married in 1992 in Chiendambuya,” she said.
“We have four children and our marriage is still subsisting. He has not divorced me. I only discovered that he wanted to marry his girlfriend when I saw a profile picture of her on his phone. We stay together in our matrimonial house in Crowborough here in Harare but he leaves me in the house and goes to co-habit with his girlfriend in Mufakose.”…
This story first appeared in The Herald.
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