{"id":69487,"date":"2022-11-15T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/marry-mubaiwa-says-she-is-penniless-and-in-pain-desperate-to-see-her-children"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:13:01","slug":"marry-mubaiwa-says-she-is-penniless-and-in-pain-desperate-to-see-her-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/marry-mubaiwa-says-she-is-penniless-and-in-pain-desperate-to-see-her-children","title":{"rendered":"Marry Mubaiwa Says She Is Penniless And In Pain, Desperate To See Her Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Marry Mubaiwa, the former wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, said she is in great pain and her health was deteriorating.<\/p>\n

Mubaiwa (40) told the Sunday Times in an exclusive interview that she is penniless and has no home and people must not be surprised if she committed suicide. She said:<\/p>\n

I am not well at all and I feel that if I had gone out of the country to seek better treatment I would be better, but the court refused to give me my passport as part of bail conditions.<\/p>\n

… I stay at my parents\u2019 home because I have nothing. I don\u2019t have a house and even a car, so I am under my parents\u2019 care.<\/p>\n

I have a well-equipped clinic which I had built from my personal funds in Domboshava [outside Harare] but I was blocked from accessing it.<\/p>\n

She suffers from lymphoedema, a disease that causes the limbs to swell.<\/p>\n

Mubaiwa had her arm amputated after a court forbade her from travelling to South Africa for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

She said she has not been allowed to see or speak to her children \u2014 aged between eight and 11 \u2014 for three years. Said Mubaiwa:<\/p>\n

Especially not seeing my children is very painful for me. Sometimes I start having thoughts of committing suicide \u2014 and don\u2019t be surprised [if I do]. I have not spoken to my kids and I have not seen them since 2019.<\/p>\n

In a couple of days, it will be my daughter\u2019s and my son\u2019s birthdays. I have not spoken to them even over the phone.<\/p>\n

My lawyers have written to [Chiwenga\u2019s] lawyers many times for me to get access to my children but that has not helped.<\/p>\n

Our children have nothing to do with what is happening between us … These are young children.<\/p>\n

I always ask myself what he says to them about me. These are kids who need their mother.<\/p>\n

I spent nights and days crying, asking God: \u2018Why did you let this happen to me?\u2019 Everything I am accused of, I didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

Right now, I am so sick. I am having challenges with my legs that are swollen and so painful and the doctors told me after the amputation of my right arm that my body has too much fluid.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mubaiwa was acquitted on charges of assaulting her children\u2019s nanny, Delight Munyoro, by a Harare magistrate.<\/p>\n

However, she will appear in court at the end of the month on a charge of attempted murder.<\/p>\n

In April, she was found guilty of marriage fraud and sentenced by the Harare Magistrate\u2019s Court to a year in jail, reduced because of ill health to a fine of ZWL$60,000 Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Mubaiwa was found to have forged Chiwenga\u2019s signature on documents that upgraded their marriage from a customary one to a civil union.<\/p>\n

She also faces charges of money laundering and violating exchange control laws for which she is still standing trial.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Marry Mubaiwa, the former wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, said she is in great pain and her health was deteriorating. Mubaiwa (40) told the Sunday Times in an exclusive interview that she is penniless and has no home and people must not be surprised if she committed suicide. 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