PASTOR DIVORCES WIFE WITH 2 HUSBANDS

NHLANGANO - A pastor has moved a divorce application after he discovered that his wife of seven years, who is a lecturer, allegedly has two other husbands.

Pastor Thokozani Bheki Mthethwa (37) is legally married to one Melody Dlamini (42) through civil rites.  The marriage between Melody and Pastor Mthethwa has since collapsed, he alleged in his court papers.

The man is a pastor in one of the churches based in Nhlangano.
Melody is a lecturer at Ngwane Teachers College outside Nhlangano town.

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 The man of God also claimed that Melody proposed love to him, which resulted in their marriage. He alleged that at the time he was approached he was still a student at the college.
The two live at Siphumelele Township outside Nhlangano town.
Melody is yet to file her responding court papers.

These allegations are contained in court papers whose veracity is yet to be proved by a court of law.
Melody breached the procedure and married Mthethwa, who was a student pursuing a diploma in teaching in August 2006 at Ngwane College.
The two later married at the High Praise Assembly church in the Shiselweni region, in 2007.

Mthethwa said he was unhappy about their love life and wants out of the marriage after he discovered that Melody was legally married to two men and the marriages still subsist.
He claimed Melody proposed to him and tricked him into an adulterous affair.

 Thokozani said she never revealed to him prior to the marriage that she was still legally married to the two men.
Melody first married one Gcina Shabangu of KaNdinda, an area under the Manzini district, through Civil Rites and in community of property in the year 2001.

She allegedly gave birth to a third child around August 30, 2002.
The second marriage was in 2005. she wedded one Ndumiso Dvungadvunga Mtsetfwa through Swazi Law and custom and the marriage still subsists.
In September 22, 2014, at the High Praise Assembly in Nhlangano Melody secretly married Thokozani Bheki Mthethwa.

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However, Melody has four children from a previous relationship.
The pastor said in the court papers, “On or about, September 22, 2014, the respondent and I contracted a Civil Rites marriage in community of property at the High Praise Assembly in the Shiselweni region.

“The marriage was solemnised and the first respondent Thembeni Melody and I were declared husband and wife.”
He has alleged in court papers that he was not aware that Melody had been previously married to two other men.

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