A KOPALA mother, has successfully dribbled her daughter in-law of her position in her marriage after taking over the kitchen, and reportedly the bedroom duties too.
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It is alleged that the woman, Martha Zimba, 69, much like the biblical Naomi, vowed never to part ways with her 50-year-old son, Allan Zimba and his wife, Delphister Muchimba, 39, shadowing them from home to home as if bound by destiny.
With unwavering determination, she followed them like a spirit that could not be shaken off, declaring silently that where her son lived, she too would dwell.
This, however, was not because she cared much for her family, but because she allegedly planned to turn herself into her meal, on top of preparing him a meal, totally depriving her daughter-in-law of marital duties.
This was unravelled during the divorce case of Zimba and Muchimba in the Matero Local court on Friday.
After Muchimba told Magistrate Harriet Mulenga that she 100 percent suspects her mother in law of sleeping with her son.
Muchimba complained that ever since her mother-in-law shifted with them to Lusaka from the Copperbelt, she is the one who decided what chicken piece her son will eat, and how the relish will be prepared, instead of her, the wife.
And to make matters worse, her husband has also fueled her behavior by leaving orders of what he would like to eat with his mother and not wife.
“Whenever my husband buys chicken or meat, my mother-in-law is the one who cooks it and she won’t even let me eat unless serving. If there’s any relish left in the pot, she takes it straight to her bedroom and locks the door. She controls everything in my own house like I’m the visitor,” she lamented.
“My husband pushed me out of the bedroom, so I started sleeping in the corridor. Meanwhile, he would let his mother spend most of her time with him in the bedroom and that’s why I feel something is going on between the two. I’m also being starved sexually and all this has frustrated me so much that I started drinking heavily.”
But Zimba denied having any intimate relationship with his mother, stating that she is just playing her duty of being his caretaker especially that his wife does not pay much attention to him.
“My wife loves drinking like her life depends on it and whenever I buy food, she would exchange with tujilijili. She doesn’t care about me but my mother does,” he said.
Meanwhile, Magistrate Mulenga approved the couple’s divorce and ordered Zimba to pay Muchimba K30,000 in compensation.
She cautioned Zimba that he could not place more trust in his mother than his wife when it came to food, and questioned where Muchimba’s freedom as a woman was or what she was actually enjoying in the home.
“You can respect and trust your mother, but not at the expense of making your wife suffer like a maid. Whatever you have done to your wife, may it return double to your children, karma is real,” she added.
By Sharon Zulu
Kalemba September 24, 2025
