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MANZINI – “My husband treats me as person with a disability.”
The wife of the Zionist prophet told the court that her husband was treating her like a person with a disability such that she was not allowed to even engage in the Zion dance (siguco), let alone stand for long hours in church, ever since she defied his order to terminate their baby.
“I cannot make my own decisions. My husband regards and treats me like a person with a disability even at church, because I had refused to do what he said,” she alleged.
*Nomathemba alleged that last Saturday, after he was called by the health workers, he sent her to one of their bishops at church without her knowledge where they were going.
She said when they got to the bishop, her husband informed him (bishop) that she reported him to the police because she did not trust him.
The wife further disclosed that her husband narrated to the church elder, that he had a vision of her death if she went through with the pregnancy.
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She said he told the bishop that he wished someone else could drum some sense into her. “He said where would he go when I died. My husband said it was only better for the unborn baby to die rather than me dying,” she relayed.
She went on to say the church elder seemed to understand what her husband told him because he held him in high esteem. As a result, she revealed that the bishop advised her to heed her husband’s instruction.
“He said it was better that we let go of the unborn baby, who was not even known by the congregation. But I told them that if it is God’s will that I die with this pregnancy, then so be it,” she alleged.
Meanwhile, the wife mentioned that she understood that her husband did not want her to keep the baby because she already had four. She claimed that the husband told her that the addition of another child would be a burden.
She said she asked to keep the baby and have a mastectomy thereafter.