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Judgment No. SC 37/18
Civil Appeal No. SC 433/16
Cycles, stated, also without giving any further detail, that the contract with the Zimbabwe
Republic Police is governed by a confidentiality agreement.
[13]
On the order sought, he stated as follows. Once the children attain majority, they will
be entitled to decide where they live. He will deal directly with each child and make such
financial contribution as the child may reasonably need in respect of education, medical,
transportation and other related expenses. As regards the appellant, he submitted that she
should be able to look after herself and not continue to look to him as her bread ticket for life.
He stated that the allegations made by the appellant on his financial and proprietary
circumstances are based on supposition, rumour, exaggeration and are in fact “errant
nonsense”. He again reiterated his willingness to pay $300 per month per child but on the
condition that the appellant uses at least $75 of that amount towards the children’s clothing.
APPELLANT’S ANSWERING AFFIDAVIT A QUO
[14]
In her answering affidavit, the appellant responded as follows. Her employment in the
tobacco industry is not secure. Whilst she does not pay formal rental, she incurs a number of
other costs in maintaining the home. The complex in which she stays with the children is not
secure. The vehicle she drives is more than twelve years old. All she asks for is fair and
reasonable maintenance for herself and the children, having subsisted on inadequate
maintenance for several years since the divorce. The annual maintenance of US$2 000 was
intended for her personal maintenance. She insisted that, during the matrimonial union, the
family enjoyed a high standard of living and gave a summary of the travel undertaken during
the period 1996 to 2007. She further insisted that the respondent is the owner of C & J
Accounting & Secretarial Services.