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Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Correspondent
A BULAWAYO woman has opposed her husband’s bid to divorce her in court — because he infected her with HIV. Trevners Masiye swore before Bulawayo magistrate Victor Mpofu that she will never vacate her matrimonial home and begged him to reject her husband, Hlangabeza Dube’s application for divorce.

“This man is being used by the devil who is coming between us. I don’t have anywhere to go and I know that he has infected me with HIV. He cannot expect me to go anywhere, I’m there to stay Your Honour,” she said.

Masiye told the court that she rowed with Dube  sometime in June last year over his second wife.
“I didn’t object but I was hurt by the fact that he kept it a secret. He later said I had driven him to marry another woman because I didn’t want to stay with his mother,” said Masiye.

She added that Dube had kept many secrets from her, which should be proof for the court to rule in her favour. Dube, she told the court, no longer ate her food and “prefers to vomit or cook for himself as a way of hurting me.”

“I once tried committing suicide but we reconciled,” she said. “We should go for counselling because there is no way he is divorcing me. Not now, not ever.”

But Dube hit back, insisting that he was no longer interested in his first wife because she had failed to accept his second wife.
“I pray this court grants me divorce because I can no longer live with this woman. She resents my second wife and does not want to stay with my relatives at my rural home,” he said.

Dube shocked the court when he alleged that Masiye attempted to poison him and produced what he claimed to be the poison in court.
“She keeps rat poison in the house and recently threatened to kill me, our children and herself one day when I decided to visit my second wife,” he said, producing the “poison” from his pocket.

Masiye denied threatening her husband and insisted that she would neither leave her home nor divorce her husband in her lifetime.
Magistrate Mpofu asked if Dube still loved his wife and he declared it was over, adding that no amount of counselling could mend the broken relationship.

“I no longer love this woman and I would rather stay alone. I don’t trust her anymore as she is capable of fast tracking my death,” charged the emotional Dube.

Magistrate Mpofu ordered the couple to go for counselling before he could consider granting the divorce.
“You two need to sort out your issues because it’s clear you have serious problems. You’re therefore ordered  to go for counselling for one month and come back on February 24,” he said.