She said from the time VP Chiwenga paid lobola in July 2011 the parties had agreed that they would formally wed and a
wedding was requested from her family upon conclusion of the lobola ceremony.
“She will state that she was with the complainant in India
in 2019 where she was receiving medical treatment and having so much time in
their hands led them to discussing the wedding and they agreed that if they
would be back home by July 2, 2019 they would have a small wedding. She will
further point out that the complainant indicated that he would ask the
President to be the best man and since the date had been set, she believed he
had asked him” reads her defence outline.
Former Judge president Justice George Chiweshe was called
as the State witness. He said he knew Mubaiwa as a niece in the extended family
sense and a wife to the Vice President. He said he referred her to the
Magistrate Court.
“It would be strange for a spouse to organise such a
ceremony without her husband’s knowledge, that’s why I believed her,” he said.
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