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Prosper Dembedza Court Reporter
A Harare woman yesterday told the court that she would neither consent to advice to divorce nor accept a token of divorce from her husband because he infected her with HIV.
The woman disclosed this at the Harare Civil Court where she was summoned by her husband who claimed that she was breaching his peace.
The man told Harare Civil Court magistrate Ms Barbra Masinire that the woman was in the habit of causing violence each time she visits his workplace and home.

“This woman is very violent. I told her that our relationship was over but she is refusing to accept that. She is in the habit of coming to my workplace where she physically and verbally abuses me in front of my workmates,” he said.

The woman denied the allegations and accused the man of dumping her after he infected her with HIV.
She said the man promised to marry her after he infected her with HIV.

“When he infected me with HIV he promised me in front of my relatives that he was going to take care of me as his wife,” she said.
The woman added that it would be difficult to find another husband because of her HIV status and that was why she had decided to live with the man forever.
Ms Masinire deferred the matter to tomorrow for ruling.

Meanwhile, Senior Reporter Tendai Rupapa reports that a jilted Epworth woman is facing attempted murder charges after she reportedly set ablaze a house in which her two biological children and a brother in-law were sleeping.

The accused is said to have doused the house with petrol and stood guard at the door, where she pelted whoever intended to escape with stones.
Tawanda Wilson (19), Lovejoy Wilson (8) and Lovely Wilson (4) escaped the inferno by a whisker.

Facts of the matter are that Mollen Zvandaziva (27) broke up with her husband Paul Wilson sometime in November last year.
She then packed her belongings leaving her two children Lovejoy and Lovely behind.

Zvandaziva yesterday appeared before Mr Tendai Mahwe facing charges of attempted murder and malicious damage to property.
She was remanded in custody to September 23 for trial.

Prosecutor Miss Sharon Mashavira alleged that Zvandaziva and Wilson ended their marriage sometime in November 2013, prompting the former to leave their matrimonial home.

On July 2, Zvandaziva, the court heard, proceeded to Wilson’s place in Epworth at around 7pm.
Upon arrival, it is alleged she asked for some money from her former husband who then gave her $2.

This did not go down well with her and she suddenly grabbed Wilson’s mobile phone and started opening files. This incensed Wilson, leading to an altercation, it is alleged.

It is the State’s case that Zvandaziva suddenly became violent and started throwing bricks at Wilson’s house, shattering some panes.
The court heard that Wilson rushed to the police where he made a report and Zvandaziva disappeared from the scene only to resurface at around 9pm.

She allegedly went to the room where her children and her brother-in-law were sleeping and knocked but they refused to open.
Zvandaziva, the State alleges, threw a plastic bottle filled with petrol into the room through the shattered window pane and set the house on fire.

The complainants tried to escape but Zvandaziva who stood guard at the door pelted whoever intended to escape with some stones and bricks.
They screamed for help and upon noticing that the neighbours who had heard the screams were running towards the house, Zvandaziva fled the scene and the complainants managed to escape.

Property worth $1 410 was destroyed.