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'Forget the divorce, I still love my wife,' says Chiyangwa
01 Dec 2013 at 15:50hrs | Views
Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa says people celebrating his divorce should put away their champagne bottles.
"Forget the divorce," he told the Daily News by telephone yesterday.
"It is not going to happen. Put away your champagne bottles because the so-called divorce is a nullity. I still love my wife and will always love my wife. There are no celebrations at all for those that are plotting to celebrate," the swaggering businessman said.
His lawyer, however said Chiyangwa has not been served with summons of the divorce to his wife Elizabeth. The media yesterday published Chiyangwa's divorce issue which his lawyers say was done before their client had been served with summons.
"We have been instructed to place it on record that, as at the time of publication of the article and the delivery of this letter to your offices, our client had not been served with the said summons," Addington Chinake of Kantor & Immerman said in a letter written yesterday to the Registrar of the High Court.
Chinake said the flamboyant businessman was concerned that his personal affairs have been splashed in a national newspaper "at the time the proceedings are essentially confidential between the parties and the judicial system."
"We will be taking further instructions in that regard and our client's rights are fully reserved. We request authority to obtain a copy of the said summons to enable us to take full instructions from our client, since this matter is already in the public domain," the seasoned defence counsel said.
Observers said it was quite curious and interesting why the Native Investments Africa Group founder had hired a commercial lawyer to handle the divorce case, although the former has reportedly handled Indigenisation minister Francis Nhema's separation from his wife Louise Nkomo.
According to court documents, Elizabeth not only wants 85 percent of Chiyangwa's properties, but stands to gain $204 million of the $240 million worth of properties she listed in her papers.
"Forget the divorce," he told the Daily News by telephone yesterday.
"It is not going to happen. Put away your champagne bottles because the so-called divorce is a nullity. I still love my wife and will always love my wife. There are no celebrations at all for those that are plotting to celebrate," the swaggering businessman said.
His lawyer, however said Chiyangwa has not been served with summons of the divorce to his wife Elizabeth. The media yesterday published Chiyangwa's divorce issue which his lawyers say was done before their client had been served with summons.
"We have been instructed to place it on record that, as at the time of publication of the article and the delivery of this letter to your offices, our client had not been served with the said summons," Addington Chinake of Kantor & Immerman said in a letter written yesterday to the Registrar of the High Court.
Chinake said the flamboyant businessman was concerned that his personal affairs have been splashed in a national newspaper "at the time the proceedings are essentially confidential between the parties and the judicial system."
"We will be taking further instructions in that regard and our client's rights are fully reserved. We request authority to obtain a copy of the said summons to enable us to take full instructions from our client, since this matter is already in the public domain," the seasoned defence counsel said.
Observers said it was quite curious and interesting why the Native Investments Africa Group founder had hired a commercial lawyer to handle the divorce case, although the former has reportedly handled Indigenisation minister Francis Nhema's separation from his wife Louise Nkomo.
According to court documents, Elizabeth not only wants 85 percent of Chiyangwa's properties, but stands to gain $204 million of the $240 million worth of properties she listed in her papers.
Source - dailynews
