Coastal NEWS –TERSEER ADAMU (
Review) 2013-06-28
A Zimbabwean woman and her son have
done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with one another. And now they
want to marry since the mom, Betty Mbereko from Mwenezi in Masvingo, is six
months pregnant and expecting her son’s child.
Mbereko
(40), who was widowed 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child,
Farai Mbereko (23).
She confirms
that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it is better to
“marry” her son because she does not want to marry her late husband’s young
brothers, whom she says are coveting her.
Betty
stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her son had
begun three years earlier.
She said
after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school following the death of
her husband, she felt she had a right to his money and no other woman was
entitled to it.
“Look, I
strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my
son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong. “Let me enjoy the
products of my sweat,” she told the village court.
Farai said
he was more than prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the ilobola
balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents.
“I know my
father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay
it off,” he said.
“It is
better to publicise what is happening because people should know that I am the
one who made my mother pregnant. Otherwise they will accuse her of
promiscuity.”
But local
headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village,
mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a bad omen indeed). In the past they would have to
be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.” He
warned them to break off their marriage or leave his village.
They chose
the latter and have left the village for an unknown destination
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