Soon-To-Be Ex Gets The Poster Treatment
The 57-year-old mother parked her car in front of the First National Bank in the main street of the popular tourist town and laid bare his misdemeanours for the world to see.
According to Die Burger newspaper, the woman said she was not going to let her husband get away with not paying maintenance.
And she stood bold and smiling next to her car, on which she had stuck her movie posters.
The woman succeeded in making a spectacle as FNB customers and passers - by stopped, stared and whipped out their cellphones to take pictures of her and her posters.
One of the posters said: "If my soon-to-be ex-husband thinks he can: bed down cheap women, buy them underwear, wine and dine them in the best restaurants, take them on five-star holidays, take "excite" tablets for erectile dysfunction, go out boozing each night AND not pay me my maintenance as ordered by the court and think I will take no action, he has another think coming."
Some questioned the woman about her husband's infidelity, and both men and women passers-by offered supportive words.
She described the support as unbelievable.
"Everyone says 'Fantastic! Good luck!' But, I'm not doing this for sympathy," the woman said.
"I decided to make a peaceful point for women everywhere who struggle to get their maintenance."
She said she had been trying to resolve the maintenance issue since November last year and that the couple's divorce proceedings had been dragging on for more than two years.
She said she didn't have the money to initiate a High Court action in respect of maintenance.
Another woman who witnessed the commotion expressed solidarity with the poster parader and related her own experience: "I only found out [he had been cheating] after 36 years of married life. He was having an affair with my best friend." The woman said she discovered receipts for expensive meals and luxury getaway weekends.
The poster woman's identity is being withheld for legal reasons.
May 10, 2008
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