Child
Children
with Regard to Women’s Rights in Africa
Property
Los Angeles Times
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Namibian Widows Suffer More Than the Loss of Their SpousesWhile a woman is secluded in mandatory mourning,
her husband’s relatives can come in and take everything she has. OKAKARARA, Namibia — Francina Tjonguze was pregnant
with her 16th child when her husband died and his family tossed her out of their home. She accepted her fate quietly. She didn’t shout or rail "I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone for a week or so.
They took everything," she said. "Those people didn't respect me. When I was chased away, I was just frustrated and disappointed because that husband of mine was the only breadwinner, and I was left alone struggling with all those kids. "I didn't have the power to say, 'No, I won't The 51-year-old widow and her family haven't recovered from In Under customary law, marital As soon There is not much a widow can do during the In 2003, the High Court ordered an overhaul "Dispossession is widespread simply because women are The recent estates and succession amendment Women's "Most are really traditional, "He doesn't want to hear these issues, and "Often the chief is The struggle by women's activists to even begin a conversation Tjitere, 23, As Tjitere leaped up to demonstrate, her whole being Then, as if someone had hit the Only at school, she said, did she start to pick up
new ideas. "I started getting broader thinking. I didn't But an edge of frustration crept into Tjitere's voice
when she described rural women, so cut off from information that they are resistant to change and to the unthinkable, risky world it conjures up. "You cannot get through to the women in the rural areas. It's When rural women's property is taken, they have no power to "Even the woman herself, she's just afraid to fight against Women are often beaten by their husbands and have no Helena Nekome, After her husband died in November "They have been trying to get the house and sell it," Nekome said. Nekome said she searched in vain "My children must at least have something ___________________________________________________________________
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