CONFEDERATION of Zimbabwe Retailers Association (CZRA)
president Denford Mutashu has finally divorced wife Nomusa Memory Ruvazhe after
High Court judge Justice Alpheus Chitakunye nullified the couple’s marriage 12
months after the couple went on separation due to irreconcilable differences.
On April 30 this year, Mutashu petitioned the High Court
seeking a court order to nullify his five-year marriage with his estranged
wife, saying he had since lost love and affection towards her.
“The marriage relationship between the parties (Mutashu and
Ruvazhe) has irretrievably broken down to the extent that there is no longer
any reasonable prospect of reconciliation …,” Mutashu said in his declaration,
adding: “… During the subsistence of the marriage, three children were born …
The defendant (Ruvazhe) did not adopt the plaintiff’s surname.”
Ruvazhe did not oppose the termination of the couple’s holy
matrimony, but rather consented to the move, which was then sanctioned by the
High Court on Thursday this week.
“The plaintiff (Mutashu) and defendant (Ruvazhe) both
agreed that the marriage has irretrievably broken down and consent to the
granting of a decree of divorce subject to the terms herein alluded to being
incorporated into the final order, which this honourable court may be inclined
to grant,” both parties said in their consent paper filed at the High Court.
As regard the custody of the couple’s two minor children,
the parties agreed that custody shall be awarded to Mutashu, while his wife
shall have access to the minors during the first two weeks of school holidays
and on alternate weekends.
“Plaintiff will provide maintenance for the minor children
until each child reaches the age of 18 or become self-supportive, whichever
occurs first. There shall be no maintenance obligation by either party to the
other,” the parties agreed, adding that each party shall retain movable
property currently in his or her possession as his or her sole property.
Newsday
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