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(TALKZIMBABWE) New woman in bid to stop PM wedding

New woman in bid to stop PM wedding
This article was written by Our reporter on 13 September, at 14 : 25 PM

ZIMBABWE Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wedding to Elizabeth Macheka remains doubtful following the filing of another urgent application at the magistrates’ court by a South African woman who is claiming to be legally engaged to marry Tsvangirai.

Nosipho Regina Shilubane filed the urgent application objecting to the pending wedding ceremony between Tsvangirai and Macheka in terms of Section 19 of the Marriages Act Chapter 5:11, through her lawyer Wellington Pasipanodya.

Pasipanodya filed the papers before regional magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi and said his client is aggrieved that Tsvangirai intends to marry without her knowledge and without finishing outstanding lobola negotiations with her family.

In part, Ms Shilubane contends she was introduced to Tsvangirai by her pastor, Lazurus Muriritirwa of the Gospel Assembly Church on the 5th of September 2009 in Johannesburg at Monte Casino shopping complex.


Thereafter, a relationship blossomed between the two after Tsvangirai told the applicant he was a widower who was looking for a bride to marry and the pastor had said she was a suitable candidate.

Shilubane further argues that she visited Zimbabwe between the 18th and 20 of September in 2009 staying at her pastor’s house in Borrowdale.

Tsvangirai is said to have relocated Shilubane from Yeoville to an upmarket apartment near Sandton Buccleuh, following which they went for a holiday in the Seychelles between 28 of December and 10 January 2010.

On the 19th of December, Shilubane alleges Tsvangirai asked her to follow him to Gaborone in Botswana, saying he was distressed. She followed and they stayed together in his hotel.

On the 27th of December 2010, they went together for another love cruise holiday in Singapore for two weeks up to early 2011, on a yacht called the Legend of The Seas.

In February, Tsvangirai is said to have proposed to marry Shilubane indicating he wanted the ceremony to be conducted in Zimbabwe and Shilubane accepted, advising him that he should first marry her traditionally according to
her Tsonga custom.

After the marriage dates were agreed upon, Shilubane alleges Tsvangirai would shift them saying government commitments were disturbing him.

Shilubane says she was shocked to discover that Tsvangirai was scheduled to marry Elizabeth Macheka on the 15th of September 2012, hence her objection to the issuance of a marriage licence.

Labels: MDC CORRUPTION, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI

posted by MrK @ 4:22 PM