King Misuzulu’s Wife Loses Urgent High Court Bid To Stop Marriage To Third Wife

VICTORY: King Misuzulu emerged victorious after the Pietermaritzburg High Court struck off the roll his wife, Queen Ntokozo Mayisela’s application to him barred from marrying a third wife, Nomzamo Myeni. Photo: KZN DSAC

The Pietermaritzburg High Court has struck off from the roll the urgent court application by Queen Ntokozo Mayisela to have King Misuzulu KaZwelithini barred from marrying a third wife, Nomzamo Myeni. 

Mayisela dashed to the court after learning through the media that the Zulu King intended to marry Myeni on January 24 and 26 this year. 

She argued that the monarch would be committing an offence of bigamy as he was still legally married to her in civil rites. The Queen argued she was not opposed to the King getting married. However, he could only do so once their pending divorce has been finalized. 

In part of his court papers, King Misuzulu denied that he intended to get married. The argument advanced in court came a day after he told the Director-General of the KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Nonhlanhla Mkhize to strip Myeni of her bodyguards as the marriage had been “called off.”

After listening to arguments, Judge Sidwell Mngadi ruled that the matter was not urgent and struck it off the roll. 

“Clearly the fact that the applicant (Mayisela) confirms that she gave consent to the respondent (King Misuzulu) to marry other wives, by giving that consent, in it it’s inherent that indeed the respondent could engage in taking steps towards marrying other women. So, now when the respondent now takes those steps to marry other women that is simply in accordance with the consent that was given by the applicant,” Judge Mngadi said in his ruling. 

The Judge added that Mayisela did completely show that she has a clear right which entitles her to be granted the order to stop the marriage. 

“As a result, the application, due to lack of urgency, is struck off the roll and the applicant is ordered to pay the cost of the application,” Judge Mngadi ruled. 

Meanwhile, King Misuzulu would on Wednesday preside over the annual commemoration of the battle of Isandlwana in Nquthu in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 

He is expected to use the occasion to name the new traditional prime minister of the Zulu nation after he fired Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi in December last year.

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