Zimbabwean PM marries bride despite court ruling against it
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has circumvented a court ruling blocking his wedding after an ex-lover tried to stop the union.
The premier - whose wife of 31 years, Susan, was killed in a car accident in March 2009 - had originally planned to marry under the country's monogamous laws.
But he decided to get round the court order resulting in the cancellation of his marriage licence by staging the nuptials under an alternative customary law that allows a man to have as many wives as he wants.
The ruling last Friday was Tsvangirai's ex-lover Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo's second attempt to block the union after a high court earlier last week threw out her case saying she failed to prove she was the premier's wife.
But she went to a lower court armed with video evidence of the traditional marriage ceremony during which Tsvangirai's emissaries were shown paying the bride price on his behalf.
The premier's urgent appeal at the high court early on Saturday to overturn the magistrate's ruling was dismissed, forcing him to marry under a different law or cancel the ceremony.