Mathias Mhere's infidelity exposed

GOSPEL musician Mathias Mhere's six-year marriage has apparently long been a stormy one. The choppy ride over racy mobile phone messages did not start with the exposure of wife Susan Dzinamarira's alleged affair with Mhere's friend Gift Mahlupeka recently.

This has been revealed by a source close to the couple who said that Mhere has been involved in extra marital affairs long before this. This led Dzinamarira to seek an end to the marriage last year in May after she found messages on Mhere's phone that revealed a passionate affair with another woman.

"Mhere couldn't find his phone in the house. He asked his wife and even threatened to beat her up thinking she'd taken it. He went so ballistic that Susan's suspicions arose, even though she hadn't taken his handset.

"By coincidence, she found it (the phone) when she was cleaning the house and remembering her husband's behaviour, she went through his messages and discovered that he was seeing another woman, Mavis, who was his backing vocalist at that time," the source revealed.

"The messages were sexually explicit and in one of them, Mhere was asking Mavis to refer to him as her husband. In another, he was clearly referring to a past sexual encounter while in other messages, he was describing his wish list pertaining to future encounters."

Mavis features on Mhere's third album Nguva Yenyasha and has since dropped out of the group. She is married and has one child.

According to the source, Susan did not attend Mhere's DVD launch because she had discovered his extra marital affair. Dzinamarira then approached lawyer Charles Kwaramba and instructed him to file for divorce on her behalf.

Kwaramba confirmed that Dzinamarira had engaged him in May last year although he was not at liberty to discuss the matter which he said was confidential to his client.

"All I can say is that the issue was settled amicably without involving the courts," he stated.

According to our source, some meetings were held at the lawyer's office during which Mhere admitted his perfidy and promised to reform.

"Susan decided not press for divorce after Mhere begged her to reconsider so the two could try to make a go of their marriage. I think he didn't want to be exposed as a womaniser as it would damage his brand of a clean living and humble gospel musician," the source alleged.

But according to the source, this was not the only affair that Mhere had.

Dzinamarira declined to confirm or deny the allegations of Mhere having admitted his betrayal.

"Who has been talking to you? I can't say anything about these matters right now," she said.

Similarly Mhere could not be drawn to comment on the matter.

"I can't comment on that issue. Maybe if you call me in the afternoon," he said before hanging up.