Mnangagwa Pressured to Fix Girl-Child Abuse Issues
31 March 2014
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Zimbabwe’s Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, was last week approached by two key national figures, MDC parliamentarian Jessie Majome, and Tariro Tandi of the Plan International NGO, who are both seeking urgent government action on girl child abuse.
Zimbabwe’s heir apparent, is now under pressure to formulate laws, checks and procedures in line with the new constitution tackling girl child abuse.
Following the meeting with Mnangagwa, Jessie Majome detailed progress on her work saying, “Yesterday I teamed up with Tariro Tandi of Plan International, after I had sought and obtained audience with the Minister of Justice Hon. Emerson Mnangagwa to lobby him on concrete steps to end early, child and forced marriage. I’m fulfilling the commitment I made in Accra on 4 March -that Tari is holding, with the Ghana Parliament and Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) to work harder on this issue.

from left, Majome, Mnangagwa, and Tariro Tandi
from left…Majome, Mnangagwa, and Tariro Tandi

“The Minister welcomed the initiative and invited us to submit the necessary law reform details. We’ll get right to it- amendments to align the law to the new Constitution to the Marriage Act i.e to raise the minimum age for marriage to 18, criminalize breaches, and the Education Act to define and strengthen the right to compulsory basic education.
“Thanks Bea Ton of Star FM and F B for linking me to the fantastic work of Plan International an Girls Not Brides on the same issue. We can only succeed when we partner. My motion in Parliament on action to end GBV includes ending early, child and forced marriages.
“I was encouraged to see Research & Advocacy Unit & Rumbidzai Dube’s field research on this.
“Let’s not tire until early, child and forced marriages and GBV disappear from our society.”

2 Replies to “Mnangagwa Pressured to Fix Girl-Child Abuse Issues”

  1. Bigup to Plan Int.can yu start with areas like redcliff where hunger has camped bcz of Bimha’s unborn baby (nzs) vana voshura nokudazvinhu

  2. VaMunangagwa, vasikana avo vapei zvavanoda vaite vana avo. Hapana shungu apa. Mukadzi akasapihwa zvaakasikirwa naNyadenga unopengereka! Majome anoda vana uyo!!

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