New Zimbabwe
May 2, 2008
http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/roma50.18148.html
ROSEMARY Sibanda, the woman at the centre of the infidelity storm that engulfed Archbishop Pius Ncube, and eventually forced him to quit, died at Bulawayo's Mpilo General Hospital on Friday.
Archbishop Ncube, the former head of the Bulawayo diocese of the Roman Catholic Church and a vocal critic of President Robert Mugabe's government admitted to the adulterous affair with Sibanda shortly before he was reassigned to the Vatican.
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Rosemary, whose estranged husband Onesimus Sibanda is suing the former Archbishop for Z$5 trillion, accusing him of adultery, died just after noon on Friday, a family member who asked not to be named said.
Hospital authorities, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told New Zimbabwe.com she had been admitted on April 30 and suffered from pneumonia.
Ncube is believed to have been informed.
The prominent cleric was caught in a newspaper sting, believed to have been funded by government agents, after he was captured on secret camera planted in his bedroom having sex with Sibanda and up to nine other women.
Ncube, who was sworn to celibacy, originally denied the allegations, but in February, he admitted the affair to Frontier TV, an independent film Production Company.
"It is true," he said, "I do admit that I did fail in keeping God's commandment with regard to adultery.
"Having failed in keeping the Seventh Commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' I would like to apologise to you, I would like to apologise that so many of you were praying for me, for the fact that so many of you standing with me suffered so much."
Zimbabwe's state media which sparked the adultery furore has printed claims by Onesimus Sibanda that his ex-wife infected him with HIV, which she allegedly contracted from Archbishop Ncube.
The court case is still before Zimbabwe's courts.
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