Tribal Chief’s Divorce.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 387, 19 March 1937, Page 5

Tribal Chief’s Divorce.

Press Association —Copyright, Received 1.50 p.m. Cape Town, March 18. Tshekedi, chief of the Bamangwatos, whom Admiral Evans suspended in 1933 because Tshekedi ordered the flogging of a white man, has obtained a divorce on the grounds of his wife’s infidelity. The case was heard by the British Commissioner for Bechuanaland instead of the suspected wife being turned out into the jungle, in accordance with tribal custom. Tshekedi declared that his wife had used love potions obtained from a witch doctor to attract her lover. The wife denied the visits of the “second husband,” saying that “he must have come like a breath of God, because I did not see him.” A tribesman held up the wife’s child to enable the Court to see whether it resembled Tshekedi.