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Tanzania: Why Husbands Could Soon Be Compelled to Pay Their Wives 'Salaries'
Nairobi News, 11 March 2020
A senior government official in Tanzania says he is planning to petition Parliament to introduce a bill that seeks to have husbands literally pay their wives every end of the… Read more »
Tanzanian Men Could Soon Be Forced to Pay Their Wives a 'Salary'
Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Paul Makonda, wants to introduce a law that will enable 40% of salaries of men in formal employment deducted and credited to the bank accounts of their spouses who are housewives. He says he doesn't want women to be frustrated by a lack of money.
Women collecting shells along the beach of Zanzibar East Coast (file photo).
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