Mistress drags lover’s wife to court, seeks restraining order

A Zimbabwean woman, Juliet Nyasha Mbofana, has dragged her lover’s wife, Winfilda Mpiyabo, to court for allegedly disturbing her peace.

Mbofana told the court that she needed a protection order against Mpiyabo, as she often called her husband, whenever he was spending time with her and that Mpiyabo had even come to her workplace to threaten her, report iHarare.

She said, “She is in the habit of visiting my workplace and threatening to kill me. She tells people that I snatched her husband yet the two of them have since divorced and I don’t know how I snatched her husband.

“She calls my boyfriend demanding things from him and on one occasion, she insulted my parents through the mobile phone. I want all that to stop because I am now living in fear as I do not know what she is going to do next, I plead with this court to protect me from this woman,” said the mistress.

In response, Mpiyabo told the court that she wasn’t divorced that in fact her husband paid her bride price in March but stopped coming home, when he started the affair with Mbofana.

“He paid my brideprice in March.  I call him to find out about his whereabouts. He should come home to his family, not spend time with his mistress.

The court granted the order in favour of the mistress and barred Mpiyabo from visiting Mbofana’s workplace to cause chaos.

She also urged Mbofana to look for her own husband and desist from dating married men.

The identity of the man wasn’t stated.