ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has asked a local court in Zambia to dissolve his marriage with first lady Vera, his wife of 32 years, a court source said on Monday. Chiluba, through his cousin Besters Chola, applied for divorce in a local court in Chifuba, a small Copperbelt town. He said Vera had initially refused to appear before the local court and instead obtained a court injunction ordering Chola to stop interfering with her marriage with Chiluba. “But the High Court has quashed the interim injunction which the first lady had obtained. The matter has been referred back to the local court,” the source said. Chiluba and his wife have been on separation for almost a year. – AFP
Monday September 3, 2001