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News / NationalMan wins protection order against abusive wifeby Staff reporter1 sec ago |0ViewsA Harare man has been granted a protection order against his wife, whom he accused of subjecting him to 16 years of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse over allegations of barrenness.Mr Leonard Tamiwa appeared before Harare Civil Court magistrate Mr Ashton Dube, seeking relief from what he described as a long-standing pattern of humiliation and mistreatment by his wife, Ms Thokozile Sibanda.Testifying before the court, Mr Tamiwa said his wife had turned their once-harmonious marriage into a “battleground of insults and mockery,” often ridiculing his masculinity and comparing him unfavourably to other men.”She calls me useless and says I am not a real man because she claims I cannot father children,” Mr Tamiwa told the court.
“She knows I had three children with my late wife, but she still mocks me every day.”He said the abuse, which began subtly early in their marriage, had intensified in recent years. Matters came to a head when Sibanda allegedly threw his clothes and personal belongings out of their matrimonial home, declaring that he had no right to live there because he was “not man enough.”Mr Tamiwa said his humiliation had become public, with neighbours now gossiping about his private life. “I have lived in fear and shame. I cannot eat or sleep peacefully,” he said.
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