Woman asks court to put a curfew for her husband

Michael Mashiri

The wife of a Harare man who has threatened to kill his wife before ending his own life to end the couple’s troubled marriage asked the court to order him to get home early.

Andrew Mahanye appeared at the Harare Civil Courts where his wife, Easter Kapondwa, said he comes home late, and when he does, that’s the end of her peace as he starts a violent racket.

She said Mahanye has threatened to carry out murder-suicide.

"He said he would kill me and himself to close the chapter. He is in the habit of breaking windows and household items. He assaults me," she said.

Kapondwa said Mahanye disrespects her and traumatizes their son by insulting and physically abusing her using obscene language in front of the minor.

"He tears my clothes and accuses me of being a prostitute," she said.

She said Mahanye’s verbal diarrhea runs to smearing his mother-in-law, Kapondwa’s mother.

She pleaded with the court to order Mahanye home at reasonable hours.

Mahanye, did not dispute his wife’s allegations. In his defense, he said alcohol consumption led to his terrible behavior.

The court could not grant Kapondwa’s plea for a curfew on her husband but granted her a peace order against Mahanye barring him from destroying household items as well as threatening or assaulting his wife.