Forgotten shoe betray cheating wife

TWO neighbours at Mzilikazi are no longer seeing eye to eye after one of them allegedly left shoes in the other's house after spending time with the neighbour's wife.

When Japhet Banda discovered shoes belonging to a neighbour at his house, he concluded that his wife, Theodora Pandasekwa was having an extra-marital affair with the owner of the shoes.

Banda added that his wife was often not at home.

"At one time I was doing community service at a nearby school and when I came home for lunch I found the children alone. The younger one had even messed herself and it seemed it had been long since she had left. After a long wait for her return I had to carry the kids to the school to do my community service whilst minding them," said Mr Banda.

It is said at one point, Mr Banda came home and it took time for him to be given entry into his own house. After gaining entry a young man came to the home asking for a pair of shoes his brother had left behind.

When Banda questioned how the shoes had been left the young man spilt the beans that his brother had left the shoes when he had come to visit the wife and all hell broke loose.

B-Metro then visited the wife, Pandasekwa, at her parents' home in Makokoba where she is residing since separation from her husband.

"I did not leave that man because I was having an affair but because he was abusing me. He is very violent, that is why he was doing community service ' for domestic violence. I did not cheat on him with any neighbour, it is all a lie just like he is having me rushing in and out of court for false accusations. First he got me in court claiming I beat him. Now he is filing for a peace order," said Pandasekwa.

She claimed her husband seemed to be after destroying her and even threatened she would sue him for all the disturbance he has caused in her life.

She claimed she left the children because her husband had told her to pack and leave them behind.

Some residents at Mzilikazi claimed that the man at the centre of controversy was a man called Eddie, who however said he had no affair with Pandasekwa, but his friend who has since moved to Harare.

"It is not me who was seeing the woman but my housemate. She would come to our place to see him and most of the time she came to him instead of the guy going to her place. The guy is no longer here in town but moved back to Harare. He did not know she was married and discovered later in the affair what was happening. He panicked and moved away to his home in Harare," said Eddie.

When Eddie was asked the name of his claimed housemate he went into deep silence in thought for a long time until the reporter asked him whether he was trying to cook a name up. He responded with a laugh and said he had forgotten the name.

The war between the couple has now spilt into the courts.