Brooke Hubby Assaults Wife Who Rejected Polygamy
"When I wanted to report him to the police for assaulting me, my relatives and his stopped me" - Rosa Chibaya
Brooke Hubby Assaults Wife Who Rejected Polygamy
A Downhill Brooke woman yesterday sought the Harare Civil Court’s protection against her husband, accusing him of physical and verbal abuse.
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Rosa Chibaya applied for a protection order against her husband, Kumbirai Chibaya, saying he assaults her and even insults her parents. Rosa said:
The reason being that he wants me to accept polygamy yet we are legally married.
When I wanted to report him to the police for assaulting me, my relatives and his stopped me.
Kumbirai denied all his wife’s accusations, saying he was, in fact, the victim. Kumbirai said:
I’m not violent, she is the one who is violent towards me.
She attacks me with axes and hoes and I have injuries and wounds all over my body.
Magistrate Sharon Mashavira said Kumbirai had failed to raise a plausible defence, and therefore issues of physical and verbal abuse raised by his wife could not be disputed.
She granted Rosa the protection order and ordered Kumbirai not to verbally, physically, emotionally and psychologically abuse Rosa, and not to communicate with her in a violent manner.
Meanwhile…
BANKER Mbongeni Dhlamini has accused his estranged wife of 15 years of ill-treating their two minor children after she moved out of their matrimonial home with them in 2020.
Brooke Hubby Assaults Wife Who Rejected Polygamy
Dhlamini and his wife Sizile (née Nyathi) whose divorce still hasn’t been finalised, appeared before Justice Fatima Maxwell, after Sizile approached the High Court on an urgent basis seeking restoration of custody pending a resolution of the issue of custody.
In her founding affidavit, Sizile narrated how she got married to Dhlamini in December 2008 and they bore two children in 2009 and 2012.
She told the court that following their separation in October 2020, she moved out of their matrimonial home with the children after they had agreed that she would have custody of the children until the issue of custody and access is resolved.
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She claimed they agreed that Mbongeni would access the children on alternative weekends during the term and for half of the school holidays.
Sizile said Dhlamini took the children separately in February and September 2022, and has since refused to restore custody to her and denied her rights of access.
She further claimed that he had constantly ignored her invitation to negotiate the issues of custody and access.
Sizile also accused Dhlamini of turning the children against her and causing them to be hostile and disrespectful.
