Betty stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her child had started three years previous. She said after spending a allotment of cash dispatching Farai to school following the death of her married man, she felt she had a right to his money and no other woman was deserving to it.
“Look, I strove solely to drive my child to school and no one assisted me. Now you see that my child is working and you accuse me of doing certain thing wrong. “Let me relish the goods of my sweat,” she told the town court.
Farai said he was more than prepared to wed his mother and would pay off the ilobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents. “I understand my father past away before he completed giving the bride cost and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said.
“It is better to announce what is happening because persons should know that I am the one who made my mother pregnant. else they will accuse her of promiscuity.”
But localized headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We will not permit this to occur in our town, mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a awful omen indeed).
In the past they would have to be slain but today we will not do it because we are afraid of the police.” He alerted them to break off their marriage or depart his village.
They chose the latter and have left the town for an unknown destination