Does love has to be an extrapolation of a masquerade?
Does love really have to be an extrapolation of a masquerade especially when two people have spent many years together and with kids who have even married and have their own kids? It’s like most Zambian women live in this quagmire that they fail to escape from in the name of marriage. But does it have to be like this..typical gender violence.
“Why can’t we just grow out of it and take our husbands to Victims Support?..it might be the only way to teach them a lesson”, one marketeer lady said yesterday in Shikoswe, Kafue. “Me, I have tried that once and it never solved anything because it actually got worse on my part. Personally for me, even if I want to leave him what about the children that I have with him? Apart from that, how is he going to take care of himself since he is without a job? I am the one that pays rent and provide food at the house through what I sell from here,” the neighbor marketeer also added.
The only problem that is there, not only in Kafue but everywhere in Zambia, is the problem of unemployment. It is a serious problem that needs to be addressed by the government and the NGOs as well. “There are no infrastructures or anything of that sort to keep our men, children, or even us women, adequately occupied. That is why most men and young people spend their time at bars. Actually, even the working class do the exact same thing after work. Plus, now that we do not even have a police station here in Shikoswe, bars don’t even close anymore,” said one very frustrated business woman.
A neighborhood without a police station is unimaginable to peacefully live with all the unemployed roaming about in the streets, day and night 24/7. It is really a sad and unfortunate situation which is certainly due to poverty levels and lack of jobs in Kafue for the unemployed majority.
“Why can’t we just grow out of it and take our husbands to Victims Support?..it might be the only way to teach them a lesson”, one marketeer lady said yesterday in Shikoswe, Kafue. “Me, I have tried that once and it never solved anything because it actually got worse on my part. Personally for me, even if I want to leave him what about the children that I have with him? Apart from that, how is he going to take care of himself since he is without a job? I am the one that pays rent and provide food at the house through what I sell from here,” the neighbor marketeer also added.
The only problem that is there, not only in Kafue but everywhere in Zambia, is the problem of unemployment. It is a serious problem that needs to be addressed by the government and the NGOs as well. “There are no infrastructures or anything of that sort to keep our men, children, or even us women, adequately occupied. That is why most men and young people spend their time at bars. Actually, even the working class do the exact same thing after work. Plus, now that we do not even have a police station here in Shikoswe, bars don’t even close anymore,” said one very frustrated business woman.
A neighborhood without a police station is unimaginable to peacefully live with all the unemployed roaming about in the streets, day and night 24/7. It is really a sad and unfortunate situation which is certainly due to poverty levels and lack of jobs in Kafue for the unemployed majority.