{"id":228039,"date":"2026-03-23T01:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ex-wife-challenges-chivayos-court-bid-seeking-access-to-children\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:54:58","slug":"zimbabwe-ex-wife-challenges-chivayos-court-bid-seeking-access-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ex-wife-challenges-chivayos-court-bid-seeking-access-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ex-Wife Challenges Chivayo&#8217;s Court Bid Seeking Access to Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Businessman Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;s ex-wife, Sonja Madzikanda, has responded to his urgent child access application currently before the High Court, labeling it a personal agenda disguised as parental concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">She argues that Chivayo already enjoys regular access to their two minor children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">This follows an urgent High Court application (HCHF\/892\/26) filed on March 4, 2026, by Chivayo through his lawyers, Mpofu Mazhata Law Chambers. In the application, Chivayo is seeking access to the couple&#8217;s two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200150.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;s ex-wife, Sonja Madzikanda, has responded to his urgent child access application currently before the High Court, labeling it a personal agenda disguised as parental concern. She argues that Chivayo already enjoys regular access to their two minor children. This follows an urgent High Court application (HCHF\/892\/26) filed on March 4, 2026, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[6450,258,256,10798,6977,7371,45776,6185,10285,257,7679,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-228039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-challenges","tag-children","tag-chivayos","tag-court","tag-exwife","tag-news","tag-seeking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}