Go-between attacked over divorce token

Chitungwiza Mayor Phillip Mutoti's (pictured right) go-between on Wednesday narrated how he was attacked by the former's in-laws when he went to give them a token of divorce following the dissolution of his marriage with Alice Kuvheya.

The go-between, Mr Trustmore Masamvi (56), told the court that Kuvheya could not believe that her marriage had crumbled. Kuvheya (31) maintains that she is still customarily married to Mutoti and is the 'Mayoress'.

"I went to give her parents a token of divorce after she refused to accept that their marriage was over. Kuvheya told us that she was not going anywhere, but will die Mutoti's wife.

"This prompted Mutoti to assign me to go and see her parents three months after they got married. I went to the complainant's in-laws in December last year to pay lobola and returned in February with a token of divorce," he said. This angered Kuvheya who cornered Masamvi demanding to know why they had decided to hand the divorce token to her parents instead of her. "You went on to hand the token to my parents, meaning that you were divorcing them not me," she charged.

Masamvi insisted Kuvheya was no longer Mutoti's wife. "You denied accepting it. After the divorce you came to his house with a court order and took all your belongings. I went to your parents with a token of divorce, but I was attacked," he said.

Kuvheya denied two counts of unlawful disposal of property before Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Tafadzwa Miti who remanded her to October 26 for trial continuation.