Zimbabwe: Sister Wives Who Defy Convention

3 September 2016
analysis

Sister wives Tadziripa Chihuri (106) and Cecilia Mazarura (90), like the biblical Ruth and Naomi, are that rare union where water is thicker than blood. The elderly widows, formerly second and fourth in a polygamist row of five, have stuck together 34 years after the death of their husband, Enock Chihuri, in 1982.The peculiar duo, resident at a modest homestead in Katsande village, a few kilometres east of Mutoko Centre, in Mashonaland East Province, have become sisters by default.

Beyond being married to the same man, they share the Shumba Nyamuzihwa totem, hence the enduring sisterhood.

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