{"id":62522,"date":"2022-07-10T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-son-demands-lobola-refund-after-short-lived-marriage"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:38:56","slug":"army-boss-son-demands-lobola-refund-after-short-lived-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-son-demands-lobola-refund-after-short-lived-marriage","title":{"rendered":"Army Boss\u2019 Son Demands Lobola Refund After Short-lived Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander Phillip Valerio\u2019s son, Jacob, is allegedly demanding a refund of his lobola money from his in-laws after leaving his wife.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Standard<\/b><\/p>\n<p>reported sources close to the Sibanda and Masango families as saying Jacob was customarily married to Rumbidzai Masango and paid more than US$7 000 in lobola money.<\/p>\n<p>The couple reportedly lived in South Africa, but the marriage broke down in December of the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The couple failed to reconcile because of \u201cundue family interference\u201d according to a source. A family member speaking on condition of anonymity said:<\/p>\n<p>They tried to work things out, but all efforts were in vain. Jacob came back to Zimbabwe as a repartee with the assistance of the Zimbabwe embassy.<\/p>\n<p>What is now shocking is that he is demanding lobola so that he can also bring gupuro (a token for divorce).<\/p>\n<p>But the question we are asking as a family is \u2018why should we pay back the lobola when it\u2019s him who divorced our daughter?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another family member queried why Jacob was demanding a lobola refund from them yet he didn\u2019t do that when he divorced one Chiyedza Shonhiwa but paid gupuro with no reservations.<\/p>\n<p>The family members said Jacob had promised to pay back the money his wife used for his upkeep while living in South Africa but was yet to fulfil his promise.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob is said to have ended the marriage through a WhatsApp message.<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment by The Standard, Masango refused to comment on the matter, saying it was private while Jacob ignored questions sent to him through the WhatsApp platform.<\/p>\n<p>Download the Pindula App for a better user experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander Phillip Valerio\u2019s son, Jacob, is allegedly demanding a refund of his lobola money from his in-laws after leaving his wife. The Standard reported sources close to the Sibanda and Masango families as saying Jacob was customarily married to Rumbidzai Masango and paid more than US$7 000 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,8448,4503,10705,7667,3189,3950,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-62522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-gupuro","14":"tag-lobola","15":"tag-lobola-refund","16":"tag-marriage","17":"tag-philip-valerio-sibanda","18":"tag-phillip-valerio-sibanda","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Army Boss\u2019 Son Demands Lobola Refund After Short-lived Marriage - 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