{"id":3539,"date":"2024-07-31T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T07:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2024-07-31T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T07:45:15","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-ruling-on-lobola-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe High Court Ruling on Lobola Refund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Zimbabwe High Court has ruled that a husband is entitled to a full refund of his lobola if his wife cheats on him \u00b9. Here are the key points of the ruling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lobola Refund: If a wife commits adultery, the husband is entitled to a full refund of the lobola he paid \u00b9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Outstanding Lobola Balance: If a wife commits adultery, the husband is not entitled to pay any outstanding lobola balance \u00b9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customary Law: The ruling is based on customary law, which allows a husband to divorce an adulterous wife and claim a lobola refund if he has paid in full \u00b2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case Background: The ruling was made in the case of Liberty Machodo, who discovered that his wife had cheated on him with multiple partners, including his brothers, nephew, and herd boy \u00b9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Court Decision: The High Court upheld the decision of the Magistrate&#8217;s Court, ruling that the husband was entitled to a full refund of his lobola \u00b9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Important Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Divorce and Lobola Refund: The lobola refund is only applicable if the husband initiates divorce proceedings due to the wife&#8217;s adultery \u00b3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Refund if Husband Cheats: If the husband cheats, he is not entitled to a lobola refund \u00b3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe High Court has ruled that a husband is entitled to a full refund of his lobola if his wife cheats on him \u00b9. Here are the key points&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}