Women’s rights activists say the issue of child marriages cannot be divorced from the economic situation in the country which is forcing most young girls into early marriages and only self-help projects can help curtail this problem. Most families in the rural areas a hardly getting
“I was married off to my current husband at the age of 16. I did not know him as I was given as compensation to appease the avenging spirit of a man who was said to have been murdered by my great grandfather,” said Tariro
CENTENARY- CHILD marriages have been globally condemned but resistance has been noted in some pockets. At Bedwood farm, about six kilometers from the small farming town of Centenary, about 60 kilometres outside Harare, marriages, including those involving children, are seen as blissful and anything short of
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