VP Chiwenga has begun the process of divorcing his wife, Marry, after a major fall out when he was fighting for his life in South Africa. ...
VP Chiwenga has begun the process of divorcing his wife,
Marry, after a major fall out when he was fighting for his life in South
Africa.
The Zimbabwe Independent reports that the fallout revolved
around personal matters related to Marry’s behaviour and her attempt to have
Chiwenga write a will, in which she would have been the largest beneficiary of
the couple’s vast estate in the event that he dies.
Chiwenga and Marry have been living separately after the
Vice-President moved into another house on arrival from China, where he was
hospitalised for four months, before staging a remarkable recovery.
Chiwenga has instructed his lawyer Wilson Manase to handle
divorce proceedings and the Zimbabwe Independent understands the matter will be
heard soon, possibly by Judge President George Chiweshe who has since received
the papers.
Chiweshe is a former Judge Advocate-General in the Zimbabwe
National Army. Sources told the Independent he received the divorce papers
directly instead of through the Registrar of the High Court to ensure they do
not leak.
“The general was livid when the proposal (to write a will)
was made. He was weak and emancipated, but summoned all the energy he had to
let Marry know his feelings. He accused her of wanting him dead and even
suggested that she could be working with his political rivals to poison or
bewitch him,” a government official said.
“He then barred her from seeing him. When arrangements were
made for the VP to be flown to China, she was kept in the dark. The general
also made it clear that he did not want to see her while in China and that is
the reason why she never visited him in Beijing when he was hospitalised there
for four months.”
Marry confirmed that she indeed never visited him in China
during the time the vice-president was hospitalised, but referred questions to
Chiwenga, whom she said was the best person to confirm whether the couple was
still staying together.
“You have his number. The VP’s number. If you find it you
can ask him those questions. He is the best person who can answer that
question. Inini handina chekupindura (I have nothing to say). Remember, it is
the vice-president who came back. So it is him whom you must ask. “I was here,
it was him who was not around. I am sure he will tell you. You know I cannot
speak on his behalf. I was not in China, I was here. That is why I said the
best person to ask is him. I have nothing to say.”
Marry said on the vice-president’s recovery “journey”, a
“lot of things” happened and suggested that she had done her part to assist.“A
lot of things happened while he was in China, but our journey did not start in
China. China was only the last part of the journey. You have to ask him how he
got to India, you must ask him. There is someone who initiated all this.
“This also applies to you. If you fall sick who is going to
initiate that you are taken to the hospital? Isn’t it the person that you stay
with? So that is why I am saying it is only fair that you get to speak to him.
As I said, I am not the one who was in China. It is the VP who was in China.
You should say to him zvanzi nambuya venyu imi ndimi manga muri kuChina vanokupindurayi.
(Say to him Marry says you were in China, he should be able to answer you.”
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