A BROKEN-HEARTED man of Lusaka’s Chilenje township, Zambia, has narrated to the Boma Local Court how his wife returned home with her private region shaved, four days after she left home to attend her sister’s funeral.
This was during a hearing in which a businessman, Dimas Chapwasha, aged 48, sued Ruth Bweupe, 36, for divorce.
According to Zambia Observer, Dimas told the court that despite being married for 13 years with three children, his wife was a crafty and unfaithful woman who still accommodated other men under her skirt.
He recounted one occasion when her elder sister died.
“Upon receiving the call that her sister had died, she lost appetite and failed to eat.
“She said she could not be eating while her elder sister’s body was lying in the mortuary.
“I allowed her to go for the funeral. I couldn’t follow because the kids are too young to remain alone,” Dimas stated.
Dimas said his wife was away for four days and when she returned home, he was surprised that she had shaved her private part.
“I asked who shaved her because it was my responsibility to do that and she was not shaved before she went to the funeral.
“Her response was that after receiving the news of her sister’s death, she went into the bedroom and shaved before leaving.
“I couldn’t believe her because this is someone who was too devastated to eat so where could she have gotten the strength to shave herself,” he said.
Dimas told the court that the suspicion of his wife’s infidelity came out in the open when one evening she left her phone and a strange man called.
After being queried about the strange man, his wife said he had just called a wrong number, but after being pressed, she said the man was just a laboratory technician from the University Teaching Hospital with whom she was friend.
However, after an investigation, Dimas discovered that the man in question was a teacher and single teacher.
He stated that he was a neighbour of his wife’s elder sister.
Dimas told the court that a further investigation revealed that when his wife left home to attend her sister’s funeral, she never stepped her foot at the house of mourning, but instead was moaning in her boyfriend’s bed the whole time.
“I asked her about it and she had nothing to say, instead she started sleeping in the kitchen.
“She then began sneaking out to meet the same man each time I was at work and her elder sister was the one supporting her.
“Her family is in support of her acts and once came to insult me for berating her.
“I tried to make our marriage work for the sake of our children, but she never wanted it to work,” he said.
However, in her defense, Ruth said she still loved her husband and wanted their marriage to work for the sake of their children.
“My husband is very insecure. He would never allow me to spend too much time at the market. If I do, he could call me a prostitute.
“If our marriage was dissolved, I would not be able to care for our children because I am presently being fed by my parents too,” Ruth said.
The magistrate, Bertha Zulu passing judgment, upheld the claim for divorce with no compensation awarded to either party.
Household goods and properties acquired during the course of their marriage were ordered to be shared equally, while the children’s custody was granted Dimas who they have stayed with during the separation.
Ruth was given reasonable access to their children during holiday.
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