Palapye women also want polygamy back

Palapye: A few weeks after Kgosi Kebinatshwene Mosielele of Manyana shocked the nation when he said he wanted polygamy to be brought back as part of culture preservation, some women in Palapye over the weekend grouped themselves supporting his idea.

The main reasons that women decried was that of avoiding issues of multiple concurrent partners which lead to HIV/AIDS and divorce.

They stood by their view reasoning that polygamy is legal in many  African countries and they said divorces in those countries as well as the spread of HIV/AIDS have reduced.

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The real test is in the doing, not the saying

“Injustice anywhere is a threatto justice everywhere.”— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.We listened, and we want very much to believe him, but our belief will not be secured by fine speeches; it will be secured only by action.For far too long, there has been a suspicion amongst ordinary Batswana that the law has two faces; one for the ordinary man and woman struggling to make ends meet, and another, gentler face for the well-connected and the...

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