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MAN DEMANDS E120 000 FROM HIS FORMER WIFE

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MBABANE – A man who has found himself embroiled in an alleged polyandrous marriage is now demanding E120 000 from his former wife.


Polyandry is the practice where a woman has more than one husband.
Abel Mbhamali of Ekutsimleni in Manzini, alleged that he discovered that his former wife Nokuthula Dludlu of Ludzeludze, was also married to another man. He also wants Dludlu and her family to return to him all the gifts he gave them during their marriage.
In his particulars of claim, he stated that on or about 2010, they (Mbhamali and Dludlu) purported to enter into a contract of marriage in terms of Swazi Law and Custom.


“At the time of the purported marriage, the plaintiff (Dludlu) was unknown to me the lawful wife of one Ronnie Nxumalo, to whom she had been married in terms of Civil and Swazi Law and Custom,” he alleged.
These are allegations contained in particulars of claim whose veracity is still to be tested in court and the defendant is yet to file her papers in the event she is opposing the claim against her.


Mbhamali alleged that at the time he married Dludlu, the marriage between her and Nxumalo was of full force and effect.
Mbhamali averred that Dludlu acted animo iniuriandi by not disclosing to him her prior marriage.
Animo iniuriandi is a Latin word for intention of stealing.


He told the court that during the existence of his marriage with Dludlu, he was obliged to do the following:  pay to her family a herd of 12 cattle as lobola valued at E60 000, purchase 29 blankets to be given as gifts to Dludlu’s family, expended the sum of E1 500 in purchasing and slaughtering goats used on the date of their purported marriage, and expended the sum of E2 000 on transport on the day of their purported marriage. The plaintiff alleged that the said purported marriage was concluded and declared null and void by Order of Court dated October 14, 2016.

 

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