WHEN Carol Tawila, 39, went to the village to nurse her parents in 2016, it was time for her husband to ‘feast’ on her younger sister. It was only last year that Tawila found her husband, Munali Sangoma, 31, having sex with her younger sister and now she has given up on her marriage of 20 years. Tawila was testifying against Sangoma whom she had sued for divorce.

“I brought in my younger sister to live with us. I did not know that my husband was going out with her until I caught them red-handed in 2018. She told the court that while she was in the village looking after her sick parents, Sangoma called to tell her that her younger sister would take over her marriage, but she did not take him seriously.

She told the court that problems started three months after she got married to Sangoma. Tawila said “I caught him in adultery three months into our marriage and I forgave him”. She said she is tired of her husband’s promiscuity and lack of respect for her and she wants the court to dissolve the marriage.

“My husband insults me in the presence of our children, he tells me that he was just forced by his family to marry me,” Tawila said. But Sangoma, in his defence, told the court that problems in his marriage started in September 2019 when Tawila started denying him conjugal rights. He told the court that his wife sleeps with clothes and places a child in between.

“I don’t enjoy my marriage because Tawila has been refusing to sleep with me. I suspect she is seeing another man because I found strange numbers in her phone,” Sangoma said. He pleaded with the court not to dissolve his marriage saying he still loves his wife. In passing judgement magistrate Ruth Masanga sitting with magistrate Nancy Ngoma dissolved the marriage on grounds that there is infidelity. Sangoma was ordered to compensate Tawila with K7, 000 and start maintaining his two children with K 450