A Facebook love message from another man was enough to make Michael Sakala resolve to dump his wife. Sakala, 27, a resident of George Township, told the Matero Local Court that he has lost interest in his wife, Prisca Musole, 22, because she is not faithful. He was testifying in a case in which he has been sued for marriage reconciliation. “All along I did not know that my wife was communicating with Chris of Livingstone until I grabbed her phone and found love messages. I came to understand the reason she would go outside to answer her phone,” Sakala said. He told the court that Musole, at one point, told him that Chris had been nice to her.

Sakala said: “One time she told me that Chris had promised to take her to school if she goes out with him.” He said it was disappointing that his wife was talking to another man when she is married. Sakala, in his submissions, told the court that he is not willing to reconcile with Musole. Earlier, Musole told the court that Sakala’s mother does not like her.

“My husband told me that his mother has been telling him that he should marry another woman. She has also told me several times that I should stay away from her son,” she said. Musole said she was forced to confess to her husband that she has an affair with another man because Sakala threatened to strangle her to death if she did not confess. She told the court that she wants to reconcile with her husband because no man can marry her if he leaves her. “At the moment, no man can look at me because I have a stroke which I got in Sakala’s house. I love my husband and still want to remain with him,” Musole said. In passing judgement magistrate Pauline Newa dismissed the claim on grounds that Sakala was not willing to reconcile.