Woman gets peace order against inyanga

GWANDA woman has been granted a peace order against her husband's pregnant lover who is a traditional healer and has been harassing her.

Margaret Chihono of Zindere Resettlement in Gwanda District told magistrate Mr Arafat Kozanai that her husband's lover, Fungai Mhuri, was disturbing peace at her homestead.

The court heard that Mhuri, who has been staying at Chihono's homestead since February last year, had been impregnated by her client, Peter Chihono.

"I'm legally married to Peter but now he is engaged in an adulterous relationship with the respondent (Mhuri). I no longer have peace at my homestead and I am living in fear because of death threats I get from my husband and her lover despite that I am always unwell.

"I want Mhuri out of my homestead because she is causing me great distress. She insults me even in the presence of my husband but he does nothing to stop her. I have been degraded as a wife," said Chihono.

However, Mhuri denied threatening or insulting Chihono.

She said her stay at the homestead and relationship with Chihono's husband, Peter, had been done with the applicant's blessings.

"When I came to their homestead, the applicant was ill, she could not do any work and I am the one who was helping her out. She is the one who even told me that her husband, Peter, had failed to satisfy her sexual needs.

"We then agreed that I engage in a sexual relationship with her husband. I did not know that the two are legally married," Mhuri said.

Mr Kozanai said Mhuri should never insult or threaten Chihono. Mhuri was also ordered to vacate Chihono's homestead.

Chihono was also granted a protection order against her abusive husband who also threatened to kill her.

She said Peter had on several occasions threatened to stab her to death with a spear, allegations which he dismissed as false.