Johannesburg – Siziwe Zwane, the mother of a 16-year-old girl, who was abducted on her way to school under the pretense of the customary practice known as ukuthwala (forced marriage) has highlighted the vulnerability of widow-headed households to the act.
Zwane from the rural village of Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal in the far Midlands district told Sunday World that ukuthwala had been on the increase.
She detailed how young women of school-going age were forced to constantly look over their shoulders, terrified that the older men and their accomplices might hunt them down.
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