by ZNBC should make a soap opera out of this » 26th June 2018, 10:49
foolish woman wrote :
> Dear Zambia,
> A Lusaka businessman Mark Steven Van der Vort has cited his wife's love
> affair with former commerce minister Felix Mutati as grounds for divorce.
>
> According to the petition for divorce by Vort, Mutati is allegedly having
> an intimate love affair with his wife Agness Katwishi Bwalya.
>
> But in a consent order, the High Court has ordered that paragraph 9E of the
> petition which implicates Mutati should be deleted because it was
> erroneously included in the petition.
>
> "It is hereby ordered that paragraph 9E of the petition which was
> erroneously included in the petition be deleted from the petition,"
> read the consent order. "It is further ordered that marriage be
> dissolved by consent and that custody of the children be granted to the
> petitioner with liberal access to the respondent. It is further ordered
> that there be liberty to apply in the question of custody."
>
> In a divorce petition filed by Vort, Mutati was allegedly having a love
> affair with his wife Bwalya hence his decision to divorce her.
>
> "…The respondent admitted to the petitioner in direct and unambiguous
> language, that she has an ongoing intimate love affair with Mr Felix
> Mutati, that she loves him dearly and wants to divorce the petitioner, that
> she may be his second or even fifth wife," Van der Vort said.
>
> He also said his wife Agness had sent text messages to Zambian married men
> telling them that she loves them.
>
> Van der Vort stated that his wife had reneged on verbal agreements with him
> on the use of the US $71,000 Land Rover he recently bought for her by not
> taking or picking the children up from school.
> He also said Agness does not sleep in their matrimonial home and that when
> she chooses to go home, it was often after 22:00 hours and sometimes
> midnight and sleeps in one of the children's rooms.
> He and Agness were legally married on May 19, 2000 at the Civic Centre and
> that they lived together as husband and wife at Plot 6/7Njolwe, off
> Leopards Hill Road, Lusaka.
>
> He said he and Agness had three children aged nine, seven and four.
>
> Van der Vort further said his wife had neglected the children of the family
> and that he no longer had a wife in any sense.
>
> He said his marriage to Agness had broken down irretrievably in such a way
> that he could not reasonably be expected to live with her.
>
> According to the particulars of unreasonable behaviour, Van der Vort stated
> that his wife had since July this year repeatedly threatened him with
> arrest, law suits, deportation, divorce and on more than one occasion, even
> murder.
>
> "The respondent has repeatedly expressed in family meetings witnessed
> by family elders, in no uncertain terms, that she no longer loves the
> petitioner who she alleges is so old for her and seeks a separation and
> divorce," stated Van der Vort. "The respondent has consistently
> misused substantial amounts of family funds for reasons never yet
> adequately or even partially explained."
oh dear