All Wig and No Trousers

[Jacaylbaro]

We may be a Third World country. We may be ruinously poor, hopelessly governed and riddled with corruption. But there's one aspect of life in which we can go head-to-head with you Western nations any time you like. And that's sexual misbehaviour in high places.

 

Take the case of Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku of the Zimbabwe Supreme Court. Judge Godfrey (left) clearly suffers from a chronic case of being unable to keep his trousers on. He is currently the subject of 10 - count them, 10 - lawsuits for adultery.

 

This has been too much even for our broad-minded and forgiving President Mugabe, and he has told Judge Godfrey he must resign. Chidyausiku will

give ill health as his reason for going. Rude good health would perhaps be a more accurate description.

 

In the past, Judge Godfrey has wisely tended to restrict his romantic dalliances to junior court staff and others. His latest inamorata was a little more high-profile - none other than Monica Chinamasa, loving wife of our Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Patrick Chinamasa.

 

Patrick and Godfrey were old friends. Not any more. Patrick is taking Godfrey to court (adultery with a married person is an

offence here), and the resulting disgrace has been enough. The judge has been pronounced guilty, and must go.

 

His paramour, Monica, is an interesting figure too. In 2003 she took over at gun-point a previously white-owned tobacco farm, moved in, and immediately invited her new white neighbours round to tea, much to their astonishment. A year later she was declared Zimbabwe's Tobacco Grower of the Year.

 

Meanwhile Judge Godfrey, Zimbabwe's Adulterer of the Year, is fighting off adultery suits on all sides.

 

One is said to concern a senior female legislator, and three others are his subordinates at court. Although I have access to court files, the papers on these cases have mysteriously disappeared, and as a result actual names are hard to find.

 

None of this will surprise Judge Godfrey's friends, or indeed his long-suffering, low-profile wife. In 2000, when he was part of a constitutional commission, he made some unauthorised payments to fellow commissioner Gloria Mukombachoto, later describing the incident as a "moment of weakness".

 

More moments of weakness were to follow, including one on an official overseas trip, with another fellow commissioner, Lupi Mushayakara.

 

On top of all this, Judge Godfrey is a familiar figure to the

ladies who operate in Harare's red-light districts. No doubt he is a handy source of legal advice.

 

With all this going for him, you may ask how he's lasted so long at the top of the judicial ladder. The answer is two-fold. First, he is a not-too-distant cousin of Mugabe. And second, he's always been happy to legally back up other ministers when they seized white farms.

 

Now he faces retirement. How he'll fill his time in future is not a question anyone seriously asks. A more relevant question is perhaps how, at the age of 60, does he maintain his libidinous momentum and serial success rate? Well, he remains a highly presentable man, well-dressed and charming. He also looks remarkably fit.

 

It must be all the exercise.

 

 

 

All Wig and No Trousers

[Ibtisam]

lool

[Malika]

Lool,funny case,but reflect's the abusing of power in Africa..

[NGONGE]

You've got to admire the man's staying ability though. He's 60! What a man, what a man.

[Malika]

True, in Africa 60 is ancient,so the dude is doing rather well..dirty old man!

[Valenteenah.]

Funny article.

[N.O.R.F]

His paramour, Monica, is an interesting figure too. In 2003 she took over at gun-point a previously white-owned tobacco farm, moved in, and immediately invited her new white neighbours round to tea, much to their astonishment. A year later she was declared Zimbabwe's Tobacco Grower of the Year.