WIFE’S LOVE POTIONS
Native Chief Divorced
Cape Town, March 18.
Tshekedi, chief of the Bamangwatos, whom Admiral Evans suspended in 1933 because lie flogged a white man, has obtained ti divorce on the grounds of his wife’s infidelity. The case was heard by the British Commissioner in Bechuanaland. If the matter had been settled according to custom, the suspected wife would have been turned into the jungle. Tshekedi said that his wife had once been described as more beautiful than the dawn. She had used love potions obtained from a witch doctor to attract a- lover. The wife denied the visits of a “second husband,” saying that he must have come like the breath of God, because she did not see him. She complained that Tshekedi had neglected her. A tribesman held up the wife’s child to enable the court to see whether it resembled Tshekedi.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11
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