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Monday, November 5, 2012

Morgan Tsvangirai agrees to pay £150,000 to former girlfriend


Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister, has agreed to pay a former girlfriend an estimated £150,000 in an out-of-court settlement after he married another woman in September.

Morgan Tsvangirai agrees to pay £150,000 to former girlfriend
Mr Tsvangirai, pictured, and Mrs Karimatsenga have settled their dispute with a lump-sum payment Photo: Philimon 

Locardia Karimatsenga, 40, claimed Mr Tsvangirai, 60, married her in a customary ceremony last year. She had been seeking maintenance payments of £10,000 a month to keep up the lifestyle to which, she said in court papers, she had become accustomed. But on Thursday, it was confirmed that Mr Tsvangirai and Mrs Karimatsenga had settled their dispute with a lump-sum payment, understood to be £150,000. "The matter has been resolved amicably," Tembo's lawyer Everson Samukange told AFP.


The announcement has shocked Mr Tsvangirai's aides, who say he has no income beyond his monthly salary of about £2,000 a month and no assets since he was an impoverished trade unionist before he entered politics 13 years ago. Several senior members of his Movement for Democratic Change party are now anxious that he is compromised by his lifestyle including his recent lavish wedding to mother of three, Elizabeth Macheka, 35.

Source: Telegraph UK 

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