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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>A Mutare woman who was offered to a widower as his \u201cchimutsamapfihwa\u201d is now fighting with her uncle-cum-husband\u2019s new wife.<\/p>\n

According to Shona tradition, Chimutsamapfihwa is a woman\u2019s younger sister or niece who is offered to her husband upon her death.<\/p>\n

The contention between the two women came to light at Mutare Civil Courts last week on Thursday when the chimutsamapfihwa, Elizabeth Makate, applied for a protection order against Mercy Kamangaise, accusing her of taking away her husband.<\/p>\n

Makate told the court that she went to replace her late aunt five years after her death, only to discover that the man (name not revealed in court) had remarried.<\/p>\n

Makate and Kamangaise appeared before Mutare magistrate, Xavier Chipato.<\/p>\n

Makate pleaded with the court to bar Kamangaise from meeting with her husband. She said:<\/p>\n

This woman is very persistent. She visits my husband every morning before he leaves for work intending to prepare breakfast for him.<\/p>\n

She calls him unnecessarily and visits him even at midnight.<\/p>\n

I feel she is harassing my husband because I have never seen him entertaining her.<\/p>\n

Whenever I ask him about their relationship, he tells me that she is an ex-girlfriend he had after my aunt\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

I want her barred from communicating with him. He is my husband and mine alone.<\/p>\n

When she was asked why her husband had not applied for the protection order if he was against Kamangaise\u2019s actions, Makate had no answer.<\/p>\n

In her defence, Kamangaise said she got married a year after the death of Makate\u2019s aunt.<\/p>\n

She said she and her husband have already built a rural home in Odzi, where she lives.<\/p>\n

Kamangaise insisted that she was not aware that her husband had been offered a chimutsamapfihwa, saying had she known that, she wouldn\u2019t have married him. She said:<\/p>\n

Since my husband and his late wife had children, we agreed that I would not live at the Dangamvura house as it belongs to their children.<\/p>\n

We built a rural home and I live there. When I come to the city, I stay in Hobhouse where he rents me a house.<\/p>\n

Kamangaise claimed that when the Makate family learnt that their rich son-in-law had married a new wife, they decided to offer him Makate. She added:<\/p>\n

This is causing chaos because Elizabeth does not want to share the husband, yet I was married for five years to this man before she came into his life.<\/p>\n

She came to our rural home and destroyed my property. She removed some of my personal stuff from the bedroom, but I never complained.<\/p>\n

In fact, I respect her as a co-wife. She should continue staying at her aunt\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

She should just accept me as a senior wife as I was married before her.<\/p>\n

The magistrate granted a binding over protection order to the two women.<\/p>\n

Chipato ordered Kamangaise and Makate not to disturb each other\u2019s peace.<\/p>\n

He, however, did not bar Kamangaise from visiting, calling and talking to her husband.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. A Mutare woman who was offered to a widower as his \u201cchimutsamapfihwa\u201d is now fighting with her uncle-cum-husband\u2019s new wife. According to Shona tradition, Chimutsamapfihwa is a woman\u2019s younger sister or niece who is offered to her husband upon her death. 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