A Woman is Happy to Marry Her Son in Zimbabwe

Marry Her Son: Everything is this world become a mystery. A 40-years old

Zimbabwean mother named Betty

Mbereko is happy to  marry her son

named Farai Mbereko and both claim

that we are very happy to love with each

other that is why we want to marry . . . And now they want to arrange marriage

program and take their relation to the

next level considering that the 40 years

mother, Betty Mbereko (from Mwenezi

in Masvingo) is now six months

pregnant and expecting her son’s child and her grand child.

And now they want to arrange marriage

program and take their relation to the

next level considering that the 40 years

mother, Betty Mbereko (from Mwenezi

in Masvingo) is now six months

pregnant and expecting her son’s child and her grand child.

Betty Mbereko, 40-years,  has been a

widow for the past 12 years and has

been living with her 23-years-old son

Farai Mbereko.

She confirms that she is six month

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 abusing her.

Betty challenge her case in a village

court last week, when she said the

relation 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 council.”

Farai Mbereko said to the court

that: ”I 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 publicize 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.

The local head of the village warned them to immediately break off their

marriage or leave his village. They

chose the latter and have  since left the

village for an undisclosed destination