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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.
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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