{"id":18099,"date":"2022-04-19T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/women-activists-warn-against-attempt-to-make-adultery-official-in-mozambique"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:37:10","slug":"women-activists-warn-against-attempt-to-make-adultery-official-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/women-activists-warn-against-attempt-to-make-adultery-official-in-mozambique","title":{"rendered":"Women activists warn against attempt to make adultery official in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Activists and women\u2019s organizations say that discussions about polygamy in the country are the result of poverty and an attempt to institutionalise adultery. They argue that, even in the Muslim religion, there are rules for polygamy, and not everyone is able to comply with them.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, Muslim women in Zamb\u00e9zia were heard agreeing to \u2018share\u2019 their husbands with one or more other women, fuelling renewed discussion about polygamy in the country.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Mozambique: Sheik Umar advocates polygyny following the rules in the Qur\u2019an \u2013 report<\/b><\/p>\n

Listening to women gathered at the Lusophone African Feminist Forum in Maputo, \u2018O Pa\u00eds\u2019 heard Mozambican Gra\u00e7a Sambo say that some women are influenced by the groups they belong to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our societies, it is very normal for women to be manipulated to the extent that they come into the public space defending positions that are of interest to a certain congregation,\u201d said Sambo, immediately clarifying: \u201cI do not want to belittle the fact that there may be women who, from their own free choice, want to live in such a scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

For F\u00e1tima Mimbire, the issue of polygamy affects women\u2019s rights and, even in Islam, it is not enough to want; one needs to be able to support more than one woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Islamic religion, for a man to practice polygamy means that he has the financial resources to treat his four wives, including his four children, equally. I don\u2019t know how, in the context in which we live, in which parents can barely support their children in a monogamous relationship, they will be in a condition to give the same lifestyle to so many wives and children,\u201d Mimbire said.<\/p>\n

There is also, she added, some confusion between polygamy and adultery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese discussions reveal that people wish to make \u2018mistressism\u2019 or adultery official. If we look at the doctrine behind polygamy, it is clear that this doctrine is a system that assumes that there is knowledge of this reality. That is, the polygamist assumes himself as such from the start, and not the other way around,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Maria Gon\u00e7alves, vice-president of the Cape Verde Association for the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence, declared against polygamy, justifying her position as follows: \u201cI\u2019m not pro-polygamy, because I think relationships should be based on respect, reciprocity and loyalty. When these elements do not exist, things are unlikely to work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guinean Elisa Pinto, distinguished by the United Nations and the African Union as one of 20 women fighting for the pacification of the continent, said that, in Guinea Bissau, the practice is accepted in the Muslim environment, but that, outside this environment, such situations are \u201cnot about polygamy, but about violence against women and their children. It\u2019s typical of men who don\u2019t settle for what they have at home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Gra\u00e7a Sambo took the opportunity to share some advice for women. \u201cThink twice before getting into a relationship. It is necessary to negotiate the conditions of this relationship, its modalities and the responsibilities that fall upon each person that makes up the couple. Also, do not get involved in a relationship where there is an already constituted family,\u201d she counselled.<\/p>\n

The activists were speaking on the sidelines of a two-day Lusophone African Feminist Forum which ends this Tuesday (19-04) in Maputo.<\/p>\n

By<\/b><\/p>\n

Ra\u00fal Massingue<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Activists and women\u2019s organizations say that discussions about polygamy in the country are the result of poverty and an attempt to institutionalise adultery. They argue that, even in the Muslim religion, there are rules for polygamy, and not everyone is able to comply with them. 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