By Langton Ncube|MDC-T legislator for Southerton, Gift Chimanikire is involved in a messy divorce.

According to NewsDay Chimanikire’s wife, Tsitsi Chimanikire nee Chikwanda has approached the High Court seeking to end their 27 years of marriage which she said had irretrievably broken.

The two were married on February 9, 1990 under the Marriage Act and have two children.

In her affidavit of evidence filed at the High Court she said that the two of them have not lived together in the last 16 years.

“I aver that the marriage between me and defendant has irretrievably broken down, more particularly that we have not lived together for the past 16 years. We have lost love and affection for each other and we are no longer compatible due to the irreconcilable differences we have developed,”said Chimanikire’s wife.

She said that they acquired movable properties which they equally shared 16 years ago when they separated.