A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Mandevu has filed for divorce after just one year of marriage, alleging that his wife uses charms and that his penis stopped functioning properly when he was with another woman. However, the case took an interesting turn when the Matero Local Court Magistrate granted the divorce and ordered that the woman should keep all household goods and their plot. This decision angered the man, who questioned the court about it, but the magistrate cautioned him to be careful in the way he spoke to her. Timothy Phiri, a taxi driver, appeared before Magistrate Harriet Mulenga in the Matero Local Court alongside his 26-year-old housewife, Joyce Mambo, who was carrying her two-month-old baby girl on her back....

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