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Mrs. Lufuno



                         Matsepane




                                                                                working in Pretoria at the time and he
                                                                                also  wanted  to  buy  his  own  car.
                                                                                However, I advised him not to because
                                                                                his credit record was very bad. I told him
                                                                                that we could both use my car. He would
                                                                                take  my  car  and  come  back  drunk  at
                                                                                night. He started staying out late, and he
                                                                                would drive to Pretoria every weekend
                                                                                and  sometimes  not  come  back  home.
                                                                                He  started  having  lots  of  girlfriends
                                                                                again.  I got fed-up and I decided to take
                                                                                back the car keys.  It became a problem
                                                                                that he even wanted to divorce me.

                                                                                After I took the car back, he went and
                                                                                bought a car for himself. I did not mind
                                                                                because  I  thought  he  would  be
                                                                                responsible.  He  continued  staying  out
                                                                                late and drinking alcohol. Sometimes he
                                                                                would be involved in accidents and he
        HUSBAND                             sign  and  we  are  now  married  out  of   would blame me saying I bewitched him
                                            community  of  property  with  accrual.  I   and that is the reason he got involved in
               fter  we  got  back  together,  I   told him that I also wanted a wedding   an accident.
               wanted  to  make  sure  that  we   ring, which he later bought for me and
        Awere  not  going  to  break-up     we got a certain Pastor to bless the rings   I  fell  pregnant  with  our  third  child  in
        again.   I told him that Lobola was not   for us.                       2012.  We decided to get a house and a
        enough. I told him that I wanted him to                                 certain lady promised to sell him a house
        marry me. As a Lawyer he explained all                                  in Vosloorus.  We gave a notice that we
        types  of  matrimonial  regimes  ranking  CHALLENGES                    were moving out of the flat.   When we
        from  customary marriage, marriage in   AFTER GETTING                   were ready to move to the new house,
        community of property, marriage with                                    the  people  who  were  staying  in  the
        ante nuptial contract with and without   MARRIED                        house that we were supposed to move
        accrual etc. Due to his reckless credit life   n 2012, we moved in together and we   to did not want to move out.  We had to
        and the consequences that I would be                                    move to my mother-in-law’s RDP house
        exposed  to  his  creditors  I  decided  to   were  both  staying  in  a  flat  in   in Pretoria with all our furniture and the
        marry him out of community of property   IJohannesburg. I then bought a car as I   children.  It became very hard for us as
                                            worked late shifts and did not want to
        and  signed  ante  nuptial  contract.   use  public  transport  at  night.  He  was   we had to drive to Johannesburg to get
        Thereafter we went to Home Affairs to                                   to work every day and my elder son was


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