A Bulawayo woman has been caught in a fix after becoming intimate with her own father in law.
Sibusisiwe Sibanda fell in love with her father-in-law resulting in the pair moving in together. Ndebele culture regards one’s father in law, their own parent.
The father-in-law is widowed while the woman also lost her husband. The daughter-in-law Sibusisiwe Sibanda, moved out of her lodgings in Emakhandeni suburb to stay with her father in-law-cum-lover David Mwale in Njube suburb.
However, the two’s relationship was discovered after Mwale took one of his tenants Dorothy Nyathi as his live-in girlfriend much to the anger of Sibanda who had seen herself as his wife.
The two women — Nyathi and Sibanda — who are staying in the same house are reportedly fighting for Mwale’s attention.
So nasty is the bedroom war that Nyathi who apparently is overwhelmed by jealousy after suspecting that Mwale was allegedly clocking more hours in Sibanda’s bedroom last week approached the Bulawayo Civil Court seeking a restraining order against her claiming she was disturbing her relationship with Mwale.
At the court she made some stunning disclosures to the effect that Sibanda was madly in love with her father-in-law.
She said spirited efforts to evict her from the house have dismally failed as she was always receiving support from Mwale.
“I am married to David Mwale and we have been living peacefully until 2011 when Sibusisiwe moved in. She is subjecting us to harassment. Despite the fact that we live in the same house she does not talk to me. She is doing whatever she wants in the house without consulting me.
“Whenever I finish cooking for my husband she rushes to take the food to serve him. She is saying my husband is also her husband. I didn’t want to say this before the court but because of anger I am now revealing it. She is madly in love with my husband who is also her father-in-law. Really it’s a shame. The relationship started after the death of
her husband Isaac some years back. I want her to move out of the house since what she is doing is taboo,” said Nyathi.
In response Sibanda refuted Nyathi’s allegations maintaining that she would not move out of the house as long as Mwale “loves”
her as her only daughter in-law.
“Nyathi is not telling the truth. She is not married to
Mwale, she is just a live-in girlfriend who came as a tenant. She does not have
the right to evict me from the house since it does not belong to her. I am
staying there with the blessings of my father-in-law who said I should not go
anywhere,” she said.
Presiding magistrate Evelyne Mashavakure who however,
seemed to have been shocked by the revelations postponed the matter and said he wanted to hear Mwale’s side of the
story. b metro