Zimbabwe’s Former Finance Minister, Harare lawyer Tendai Biti’s wife files for divorce after a ten year marriage stating that the marriage is irretrievably broken down.

Zimbabwe’s Former Finance Minister, Harare lawyer Tendai Biti’s wife files for divorce after a ten year marriage stating that the marriage is irretrievably broken down.
As is common in Zimbabwe that it takes divorces to expose to the people, how well off their leaders are, the latest divorce is unmasking the PDP leader , former MDC T member and Zimbabwe’s Minister at the time of the Chiadzwa diamond rush, Tendai Biti’s property and wealth after as reported the Zimbabwe’s Former Finance Minister, Harare lawyer Tendai Biti’s wife of 10 years Charity Biti (nee Maguwah), filed for divorce at the Harare High Court, citing the loss of affection and love for each other in her declaration , stating that the marriage is irretrievably broken down.
 
Tendai Biti who is now the PDP (People’s Democratic Party) leader and formerly an MDC T member who was Minister of Finance at the height of the Chiadzwa diamond rush, is said not to have responded to the divorce. Mrs Biti in her case is claiming custody of the couple’s 12-year-old son and that Tendai Biti should be granted only limited access to the child as she aims to relocate to the United States of America in January 2018,along with the couple’s son .
 
Mrs Biti is demanding that Tendai Biti should pay their son’s school fees, purchase uniforms and meet all their son’s living expenses, which amongst other things include food, ,accommodation, and clothing and that the Harare Lawyer must meet the boy’s medical insurance and travel expenses whenever he wants to see their son.
 
Mrs Biti wants to be awarded ownership of Stand Number 14 Coltman Road, Mount Pleasant in Harare, a black Mercedes Benz S350 (ADY 5606), household property at the Biti family’s Umwinsdale home which she wants sold and the proceeds shared equally between the two.
 
Mrs Biti accepts that when she married Tendai, he had already owned other immovable properties, so she suggested that Tendai should be awarded other immovable properties including:
 
a) 7 Bernard Avenue, Chisipite
 
b)2 Poland Way, Glen Lorne
 
(c)Tsoko Lodge, Number 1 Shato Close, Juliasdale
 
(d) Number 26 Rowland Square, Milton Park
 
(e) The couple’s Murehwa homestead and pig farm.
 
She also wants tendai Biti to receive the couple’s white Ford Ranger (ADL 1761), Toyota Land Cruiser (ADI 2870), Mercedes Benz E280 (ACY 5148), Mercedes Benz E300 (ADA 7481), household goods at Tsoko Lodge and some at the Biti couple’s Umwinsdale home. More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya

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