High Court Dismisses Marry Chiwenga’s Kuramba Kurambwa Rules Divorce Legal After US$100 Gupuro
The High Court has dealt Marry Mubaiwa a significant blow after ruling that her marriage to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is over because he legally divorced her. High Court judge Justice Owen Tagu dismissed Marry’s claims. He ruled that VP Chiwenga legally divorced her when he sent retired Lieutenant General Anselem Sanyatwe to give her US$100 as a divorce token, gupuro in vernacular.
Sanyatwe was head of the National Reaction Force that used live bullets on protestors, killed six civilians, and injured 35 more on August 1, 2018.
The High Court ruling comes after Marry challenged Chiwenga’s divorce petition, filed in December 2019. In her response, Marry insisted that the couple’s customary marriage is still subsisting because Chiwenga failed to follow cultural protocol to enable him to terminate the marriage.
She further argued that she never got gupuro because of this failure to follow protocol. She, however, conceded that Chiwenga sent retired Lieutenant General Anselem Sanyatwe to give her US$100 as a divorce token. She further argued that she refused to accept the Gupuro because it was in USD and not local currency.
Following Marry’s tactics, Vice President Chiwenga made an application in November 2021 pleading with the court to issue an order declaring the customary union marriage to have been terminated.
The High Court judge dismissed Marry’s claims that she had not received Gupuro. Justice Tagu ruled that the marriage was terminated when Chiweng sent General Sanyatwe with the divorce token on November 24, 2019.
In his ruling, Justice Tagu said,
“The application is allowed with costs. It is declared that by the time proceedings in HC 9837/19 were instituted, the customary union between the parties had ceased to subsist,” as per Zimlive.
The judge also ruled that other matters like division of assets and child custody will be determined at a later trial when Marry’s health improves.
“The ancillary issues relating to custody, maintenance and property rights of the parties are stood down for determination at trial, which shall be set down by the defendant as and when she is able to prosecute the matter.
“Since it is not necessary to prove which spouse was at fault in causing the break-up of the union, there is no link between distribution of the assets and dissolution of the union. Mubaiwa has not provided a reason for arguing that the issues should not be separated.
“The issue of (child) custody does not present any court with insurmountable difficulty as the best interests of the children are the paramount consideration. No cogent basis has been given for opposing the relief sought. In fact, Chiwenga would suffer prejudice if the determination of the status of the customary union was held back simply to suit Mubaiwa’s convenience.”
Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga, recently appealed to “all the women in this universe” to help her fight for access to her children. She also appealed to the United Nations and its agencies, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to intervene in her case.
The 39-year-old poured her heart out alleging that she has not seen her three minor children, who are all below the age of 10, in two years.
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