{"id":3201,"date":"2012-09-16T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T09:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tsvangirai-weds-despite-court-ban\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T09:03:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T09:03:27","slug":"tsvangirai-weds-despite-court-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tsvangirai-weds-despite-court-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsvangirai weds Despite Court Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1663 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nnh.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Zimbabwean Priminster Morgan Tsvangirai September 15 wedded his wife Elizabeth Macheka during a traditional wedding ceremony in Harare.}} <\/p>\n<p>The wedding occurred despite a court ruling that canceled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy. <\/p>\n<p>Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register. <\/p>\n<p>A court on Friday declared Tsvangirai already married under tribal law after seeing video footage of traditional bride price being paid last November to the family of another Zimbabwean woman. <\/p>\n<p>Polygamy is recognized in tribal law but not in Zimbabwe&#8217;s national laws.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe law has no jurisdiction over customary marriages, which are agreed between families. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Zimbabwean Priminster Morgan Tsvangirai September 15 wedded his wife Elizabeth Macheka during a traditional wedding ceremony in Harare.}} The wedding occurred despite a court ruling that canceled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy. Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}