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Alick Macheso and Tafadzwa Mapako

Harare Bureau—
It is D-day for Alick Macheso and Tafadzwa Mapako who is claiming $7,130 monthly maintenance for her needs and the upkeep of her two minor children.  Magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami deferred the hearing to today after Mapako’s lawyer David Ngwerume of Hamunakwadi, Nyandoro and Nyambuya Legal Practitioners had asked the court for a postponement of the matter on the basis that he had another case at the High Court.

“I just received the papers early yesterday and furthermore I am attending a trial at the High Court. I have just liaised with my colleague to have the matter postponed to May 14,” he said.

Macheso’s Lawyer Norman Mugiya of Mugiya and Macharaga Law Chambers agreed to have the matter postponed to today.
Macheso who appeared spiffy in grey pair of trousers and a checked jacket looked relaxed and ready to take whatever the courts had in store.

He was accompanied by wife Nyadzisai and eldest daughter Sharon who looked stylish in a little black and white dress and her signature face jewellery.

On the other hand Mapako was not ready to face the world as she maintained deep concealment in the back of a car with tinted windows while her lawyer went in to make his application for postponement.

In the maintenance claim filed on April 28, 2014, Mapako stated that Macheso had not been supporting her and the two children since December last year.

She stated that the respondent was in a position to pay maintenance in the sum of $7,130 per month.
Mapako said Macheso was a renowned sungura musician, who earns high income from shows, sponsorships, and international tours.

She indicated that her family requires groceries to the tune of $1,500 per month, $300 for a housemaid and $300 for the gardener.
Mapako also wants a clothing allowance of $600 and $300 for fuel a month.

She also says she needs $450 monthly for a driver and $600 to service the vehicle.
Mapako says in addition she wants $750 to meet medical costs for the family and $550 for extra activities.

She pegged telephone allowance at $200 while rent, water and electricity bills are set to gobble $1,100 per month.
Mapako wants Macheso to pay her $400 monthly for hair and beauty therapy.

She stated in her application that Macheso barred her from going to work when they were customarily married four years ago.
Mapako said her son Alick Macheso (Junior) was of ill health and he required special medication while the other one Allexin was still an infant who also requires medical attention.

She added that Alick Macheso Junior has been very sick of late and needs medical treatment.
Macheso’s wife Nyadzisai has filed an opposing affidavit stating that Mapako’s demands are not in sync with the life that the musician’s family is accustomed to saying that even when the two wives lived together they only spent $150 monthly on groceries.

Mapako has publicly accused Macheso of sexually abusing the child as an infant.
She claims that the musician inserted his manhood and ejaculated into the child’s mouth.

The musician has denied the allegations although he admits to having used the traditional kutara method which entailed moving his manhood on the face and head of the child.

Meanwhile, Macheso is demanding DNA tests to determine the children’s paternity.
Mapako reportedly failed to turn up for the test twice.