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Tsvangirai impregnated Locadia Tembo with twins outside wedlock
23 Nov 2011 at 13:12hrs | Views
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka's denials of an event told by multiple witnesses has left journalists feeling he is being less than truthful, or there is something Zimbabweans are not being told about the Tsvangirai, Locadia relationship.
Tsvangirai moved to marry his long-term lover after she fell pregnant with their TWINS, as it emerged on Tuesday.
The MDC-T leader paid US$36,000 in lobola at a private ceremony in Mazowe on Monday – but it's now thought the decision to solemnise their year-long affair may have been taken out of his hands by her pregnancy.
The privately-owned Daily News reports that Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo, 39, is set to give birth to twins early in the New Year.
Tembo's family asked Tsvangirai to pay "damages" for impregnating her outside wedlock – a traditional practice normally employed when the woman is pregnant with her first child. Tembo is the mother of a 16-year-old boy.
The Prime Minister was charged US$15,000 in what is known as rusambo in Shona – the major expense of a traditional marriage – and also handed over 10 head of cattle. Five more head of cattle were paid as cash at US$400 for each beast.
The full list was: Rusambo - $15 000, Kunonga kwana tete -$5 000,
Mapfukudzadumbu - $2 500, Dare - $2 500, Makandinzwa nani - $1 000,
Chituro - $500, Ndiro $200, Zvibinge - $9 300, Danga–mombe 15,
Dzinotsika – 9, Dzemari 5 @ $400, Mombe yamai 1.
All charges and the "damages" amounted to US$36,000.
Tembo's sister, the Zanu PF MP for Goromonzi West, Biata Beatrice Nyamupinga, told the Voice of America's Studio 7 last night that Tsvangirai had requested a wedding during the same ceremony.
Tsvangirai's wife, Susan, died in a car accident in March 2009. They had six children together.
The Prime Minister has been linked with a string of women in the last two years, including a 23-year-old Bulawayo woman who claimed they had a child together.
Loreta Nyathi threatened to take Tsvangirai to court after he told aides he "could not remember her". Tsvangirai soon beat a hasty retreat and she was put up in a flat. He also pays for her upkeep and the year-old boy named Ethan.
Tsvangirai moved to marry his long-term lover after she fell pregnant with their TWINS, as it emerged on Tuesday.
The MDC-T leader paid US$36,000 in lobola at a private ceremony in Mazowe on Monday – but it's now thought the decision to solemnise their year-long affair may have been taken out of his hands by her pregnancy.
The privately-owned Daily News reports that Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo, 39, is set to give birth to twins early in the New Year.
Tembo's family asked Tsvangirai to pay "damages" for impregnating her outside wedlock – a traditional practice normally employed when the woman is pregnant with her first child. Tembo is the mother of a 16-year-old boy.
The Prime Minister was charged US$15,000 in what is known as rusambo in Shona – the major expense of a traditional marriage – and also handed over 10 head of cattle. Five more head of cattle were paid as cash at US$400 for each beast.
All charges and the "damages" amounted to US$36,000.
Tembo's sister, the Zanu PF MP for Goromonzi West, Biata Beatrice Nyamupinga, told the Voice of America's Studio 7 last night that Tsvangirai had requested a wedding during the same ceremony.
Tsvangirai's wife, Susan, died in a car accident in March 2009. They had six children together.
The Prime Minister has been linked with a string of women in the last two years, including a 23-year-old Bulawayo woman who claimed they had a child together.
Loreta Nyathi threatened to take Tsvangirai to court after he told aides he "could not remember her". Tsvangirai soon beat a hasty retreat and she was put up in a flat. He also pays for her upkeep and the year-old boy named Ethan.
Source - Daily News
