Woman cheats with best friend’s hubby
RYING to break her best friend’s marriage by cheating with her husband resulting in the birth of a boy, saw a widowed local woman being arraigned before the traditional courts.
Patience Gweto, claimed that she was shocked to discover that her friend, Sekai Mareyanadzo, had betrayed her trust by secretly dating her husband for years to the extent of having a child together.
She said, while Mareyanadzo and her husband had an overly friendly relationship during the past few years, she never suspected that they were in love or had a child together.
The pair appeared before Chief Makoni’s community court recently.
“I thought they were good friends. They would hug in my presence. The relationship blossomed to a stage where her children were calling my husband ‘dad’. I never suspected anything because I thought they were just good friends. Yes, their friendship was suspicious because my husband would visit her before coming home from work every day, but I never suspected anything. The whole community knew about the affair, but I was in the dark,” she said.
Gweto said she only got to know that her friend was cheating with her husband when her minor child spilled the beans.
“We had a misunderstanding with my husband and Mareyanadzo got wind of it because she is our neighbour. The following day when my child went to play at her homestead, she heard Mareyanadzo discussing with another woman that it was her turn to move into my house because I was being sent packing by my husband. She said my divorce was imminent and her fouryear-old son could now freely call my husband his father.
“It was my daughter who told me everything because it pained her hearing that her mother was being sent packing. That is when my eyes started opening and I realised that the two were having an affair for years,” said Gweto.
Mareyanadzo, however, insisted that her late husband who passed on in 2008 fathered her son.
However, this stunned the community
Tcourt as someone who died 15 years ago could not have fathered a four-yearold son. This prompted Mareyanadzo to shift goalposts and claimed that it was her late husband’s younger brother who had sired the minor child years after her husband’s death.
“My brother-in-law is the father to my child. At first I could not say it because I did not want the community to ridicule me. Gweto’s husband is not my child’s father.
“Gweto has been calling me names and also assaulted me, claiming that her husband fathered my son. I made a police report, but after she paid a fine for assault, the court referred us to the community court, a reason why I am here today.
“I am not in love or having an affair with her husband. We are just good friends and my children have during the past few years been calling him ‘dad’ because they are friends with his children as well.
“They just copy their friends because their own father died long ago. He responds to him being called dad because you cannot say no to a minor child,” she said.
Mareyanadzo claimed two beasts as compensation from Gweto, accusing her of assaulting her as well as tarnishing her image.
However, the court found Mareyanadzo guilty of cheating with Gweto’s husband.
Chief Makoni advised her to stay away from married men.
He also told Gweto to talk to her husband and find out if he is not interested in marrying a second wife.
“Stay away from married men because you might end up on the wrong side of the law. And to you Gweto, maybe your husband wants to marry Mareyanadzo as a second wife or he has already done so. Talk to him and ascertain the truth, only then, peace can prevail,” ruled Chief Makoni.
He ordered the pair to pay two goats as punishment for breaking the law by fighting.
“Since the man here is guilty of cheating on his wife resulting in the two friends’ fall-out, he is the one who is supposed to pay these two goats. I am giving him one week to bring the two goats before this court,” he said.