Nine-year-olds register for maternity services
Children as young as nine years of age are registering for maternity services, something that exposes how Zimbabwean communities continue to allow the abuse of the girl child to go unreported.
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Children as young as nine years of age are registering for maternity services, something that exposes how Zimbabwean communities continue to allow the abuse of the girl child to go unreported.
The Tendai Biti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has castigated government over its delay in converting a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling on child marriages into law, over a year after the judgment was handed down.
By Daniel Nemukuyu The landmark judgement that outlawed child marriages in Zimbabwe has earned the Constitutional Court an international award. Acting Chief Justice Luke Malaba, sitting with eight other judges of the Constitutional Court last year, declared unconstitutional any unions involving children below 18 years. The judgment in the famous case of ‘Mudzuru and Tsopodzi […]
Judgment in a case in which two teenagers filed a Constitutional Court application challenging the Customary Marriages Act claiming it allows girls to get married at an early age has been reserved.