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WOMEN ARE USUALLY INSULTED FOR WANTING TO CONTEST ELECTIONS

HON. ELIZABETH MASUKU: Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to debate on this. We have faced very difficult times in life. @GMCZimbabwe @WiPSUZim @wlsazim @YoungWomenInst @unwomenzw @UN_Women @lilomatic

HON. MASUKU: Women are abused by being beaten for failing to cook, to wash the laundry and the husband sometimes would not have bought soap to wash the laundry. Abuse on women and youths is very bad. It adversely affects the communities in which we live.

HON. MASUKU: Mr. Speaker Sir, where we reside in communities, they should be laws that are given to kraal heads and chiefs that there should not be any abuse against women and youths.

HON. MASUKU: Perpetrators of such crimes must be prosecuted& fined so that they become aware that it is not profitable to behave in such a manner. If you want to contest as a woman you are insulted and ill words are spoken against you that you are a prostitute and that is abuse

HON. MASUKU: If you are in a managerial post as a woman your male subordinates do not respect you. Mr. Speaker Sir, all those things affect women and such matters should be properly investigated so that women and youth lives can be improved.

HON. MASUKU: We see these things happening in the communities. There are some man who are being abused by women. We are all people created by God and we must live in harmony as Zimbabweans.

HON. MASUKU: There should be a law that encourages people to respect each other in the communities where we live and our constituencies. We have heard cases of children being raped by close relatives and guardians we must try and understand how those crimes are committed.

HON MASUKU: The victims must be protected; males should respect women because a woman has a lot of responsibilities, childbearing, household chores, caring for the ailing and all those things. I thank you.