Masvingo residents were treated to a public drama last Friday after MDC-T MP for Masvingo West Tachiona Mharadza and his wife Memory were involved in fisticuffs after the legislator was allegedly caught red-handed with another woman in the city centre.
Report by Tatenda Chitagu, Own Correspondent The incident happened after Mharadza’s wife Memory (nee Chikava) allegedly found her husband chatting a suspected girlfriend, identified as Silibaziso Ndebele, inside the MP’s Isuzu truck.
Mharadza confirmed the incident yesterday and blamed his wife for overreaction after she spotted them talking to each other in the city centre.
“I once dated Silibaziso and I talk to her if I meet her in town just like any other man who sees his ex-lover. My wife knew of her, but she overreacted. I just met my ex-lover in town and greeted her, and that is when my wife saw me and made noise, yet nothing is still going on between the two of us,” Mharadza said.
The matter reached boiling point after Mharadza assaulted his wife, accusing her of dramatising the issue, thereby attracting the attention of passersby.
Eyewitnesses said Mharadza assaulted his wife after she tore up Ndebele’s blouse. Business briefly ground to a halt in the country’s oldest town as residents rushed to the scene for the free public spectacle.
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“He beat up his wife, dragged her down and that’s when his girlfriend got a chance to escape. On seeing that a crowd had gathered, he sought refuge in the warehouse of anearby furniture shop as his wife wailed,” a witness told NewsDay.
The witness said Mharadza was only rescued by fellow party member, Councillor David Vasivenyu Chimombe, who intervened and took the MP and his wife home in his car, leaving their vehicle behind.
Chimombe could not be reached for comment yesterday. The couple, who married in 2010 and have two children, are said to be leaving separately after the incident with Memory reportedly staying at her parents’ home in Zimuto.
