Enock Kavindele Junior has filed a petition in the Lusaka High Court, seeking to divorce his wife Rita Malaya barely four months into their marriage.
Kavindele, a businessman, married Rita, a receptionist at Protea Hotel, on June 6, 2014 at the Lusaka Civic Centre.
He stated that there was a child born to him and his wife and another between his wife and another man before they married.
He is alleging that his wife had committed adultery with Nason Mwanza, the father of one of her children and that he found such an action intolerable.
In this matter, Kavindele, has sued Rita as respondent and Mwanza as co-respondent.
According to a petition for dissolution of marriage filed in the Lusaka High Court principal registry on November 20, Kavindele claimed Rita had been sleeping around with Mwanza.
He submitted that Rita was found with an Ipad with pictures of Mwanza in it, which she used to hide.
He stated that his wife complained to two of his family drivers, wondering why he rushed into paying lobola [dowry] to her relatives for her when he knew that she was still going out with Mwanza.
Kavindele stated that his wife in a message to him, stated that, “But we can stay legally married and we will just leave it like that.”
He stated that the marriage had broken down irretrievably in such a way that he could not reasonably be expected to live with his wife.
Kavindele has since asked the court to dissolve his marriage to Rita and be granted custody of the child of the family