Newsday reported that Chief Chiduku, a senator for Manicaland this week stunned a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee when he said there was nothing wrong with marrying off underage girls.
He said this during a committee hearing where male gender activists, Varume Svinurai/Vhukani Madoda Men’s Forum had appeared before the Thematic Committee on Gender and Development to give oral evidence on children’s rights.
The male gender activists had castigated cultural practices where young girls in some parts of Zimbabwe and certain religious sects were being married off to elderly men.
To read more
The entire society should know that the future of Zimbabwe is in the hands of the young, both boys and girls. Let us leave the children (to include the girlchild) to mature physically, socially, academically, professionally and economically. We should therefore transform our social practices so as to match contemporary standards which in turn contribute to national development.