The State wants Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Acting
President Constantino Chiwenga, to surrender into court custody as part of her
bail conditions all three valid Zimbabwean passports reportedly issued to her
and to live at a different address from the matrimonial Borrowdale home she
shared with her husband.
She is on remand for attempted murder, fraud and money
laundering. Mubaiwa surrendered one diplomatic passport as a bail condition set
by the High Court.
The State has been informed there is a second diplomatic
passport, expiring on December 11 this year, and an ordinary passport expiring
on February 21, 2022. The prosecution wants all three passports in the custody
of the court until the trial is over.
The application has been set for hearing today before
Justice Pisirayi Kwenda.
Acting President Chiwenga, who is accusing his estranged
wife of performing rituals at his Borrowdale home and bringing in “witch
doctors”, opposes Mubaiwa’s request to reside at 614 Nick Price Drive,
Borrowdale Brooke.
Through his lawyers, Manase & Manase Legal
Practitioners, the Acting President argued that the prosecution was not aware
of the issue when bail was argued.
He contends that Mubaiwa, being an accused person, could
not share the house with the Acting President, who is the complainant in two of
the cases for fear of interference.
Meanwhile, Justice Christopher Dube-Banda, is expected to
preside over the civil case in which Mubaiwa wants custody of the couple’s
three children.
The matter was last week deferred to give them a chance to
hammer out a settlement. Herald
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