Sexual and Gender based Violence (SGBV) providers in the country have called for the revision of the Rape Act saying the
current one has many grey areas that needed amendment.
The providers said during a five-day Gender sensitisation workshop in Lusaka supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), that the current Act had many grey areas such as cases of marital rape which were not clearly spelt out in the current Act.
[pullquote]“ In Zambia , cases of marital rape is on the increase where husbands tend to demand for sex from their wives in the morning, afternoon and bed time,” the participants said.[/pullquote]
ZANIS reports that providers are from the Zambia Police Victim Support Unit, Ministry of Health and the Social Welfare Department of the Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare among others.
The participants expressed concern that though marital rape was on the increase in the country, there was no definite description in the Law about the case in the Act.
They said it was for this reason that married women were being sexually abused by their husbands without due consent. “ In Zambia , cases of marital rape is on the increase where husbands tend to demand for sex from their wives in the morning, afternoon and bed time,” the participants said.
But one of the Facilitators, Mhlakeni Zulu told participants that there was nothing like marital rape saying it was a husband’s right to enjoy his conjugal rights from his wife anytime .
Mr Zulu, who is Assistant Commissioner of Police in the Criminal Investigations Department said the general public should be aware that marital rape occurred only when couples were in separation and not in matrimony.
During the workshop the Police Service was castigated for not doing enough to investigate cases of marital rape and their inability to differentiate between real rape and marital rape.
[pullquote]But one of the Facilitators, Mhlakeni Zulu told participants that there was nothing like marital rape saying it was a husband’s right to enjoy his conjugal rights from his wife anytime .[/pullquote]
Marital rape is defined as when a husband uses force of any kind to have sex with his wife without her consent.
At the same workshop, UNICEF’s Gender Specialist Annie Sampa told the meeting that the rising cases of marital rape which often times went unreported had created anger in most housewives who in turn became very brutal to the extent of killing their spouses.
Mrs. Sampa said the only solution to this was mutual respect and honour for each others’ human rights in homes.
She encouraged participants to consider sensitising their communities on the need for married couples to respect each others’ human rights if marital rape was to be reduced.
Meanwhile, another facilitator Tresford Kasale said it was wrong for the Zambia Police Service officers to summon witness to their stations where they ( witnesses) were made to submit evidence in cases of mostly civil nature.
Mr Kasale said the trend was very intimidating resulting in witnesses to willfully not submit evidence to police stations. He said his office had also noted with concern that the police became unease when making submissions in court saying, often times, submissions made only resulted in courts throwing out most cases.
ZANIS
Yes in our culture conjugal rights must be exercised unless only if the wife is sick.It is just too western to talk about rape between too married birds.Conjugal power bane.
Yes in our culture conjugal rights must be exercised unless only if the wife is sick.It is just too western to talk about rape between two married birds.Conjugal power bane.
Imwe Guyz Imwe, sex in the morning, sex in the afternoon, sex in the evening, like eating kondolo for breakfast , nshima lunch and nshima supper yaba!! 3 times a day!!! What time do you work? Koma you have energy ma boyz imwe.. Even Viagra wont take you that long. No wonder your women think you are raping them.
Nga tabalefwaya ukubakwela bela upwa!!
Those pushing for this marital rape clause should opt not t get married otherwise you will be complaining once your husbands start seeking it elsewhere.
Its a privilege ukukwelwa 3 times a day, in whatever way. Bambi tabai mona for the whole year. These women………
The reason for having sexual appetite (many sex rounds) is lack of circumcision.Since I got circumcised 2 years ago,I and my wife have enjoyed mwe.We only have 1 round a day which lasts for an hour, and after we only do it maybe after 2 days.So I urge all you brothers out there go have that skin cut off.Sisters encourage your men to go for the chop.
Maloza, kunyengana bokwatila inkale vuto lomba tikokwela mahule, niye chamufuna?
Most uncircumcised men would not go beyond 5 minutes of their first round of sex.And this has caused alot of frustration among many a woman.Any woman who has had sex with a circumcised man would never ever want an uncircumcised man.
# 7 are u sure it is the circumcision doing that or it is the issue of the increasing seasons ? But if insansa increases maybe it is worth the cut.
#8 Get your facts right! Thats rhetoric…myth!
V J ayo ma theories yabufi!
Yes think 10 and 11 you are right.Ifi fintu it is just matter of self control.One just have to know when to burst into flames.
Its all hogwash this thing of marital rape. These so called Providers are just after making money. And comment 3 sex thrice per day is not even enough especilly for our brothers who leave in shanties. They have nothing to do and all they they think of is sex and beer. Thats how come there are so much AIDS and so many babies in these locations. Comment 7 what you are trying to say is actually that circumcision has reduced the sensitivity on your dick to the extent that you cant release until after an hour. By the time you release, you are spent and in no position to repeat.
Ever wondered why God told the male Isrealites to be circumcised?
# 14 are you trying to suggest that God wanted them to last longer in the sack? Mwalafilufyanya ba guy imwe na ma theories yenu!
Indeed circumcision has its advantages such as hygine and lately what has been claimed that its reduces the risk of catching HIV but as for lasting longer, i think, like #12 put it, its up to you to have enough control and know when to explode
#14 vj whatever!
ask your wife what she is puting in your food to make you man enough, and not that shi-t you are talking about.
# 6 wansekesha sana mwee … true I’m aware of a couple of cases umukashi nga imona ni jackpot!!! Awe namona bambi tabatasha mwe!
#7- Stop bulls.h.itting yourself. Your reduction to 1 round per day obviously has to do with your age son. And dont speak for your wife maybe she misses the skin mwana, coz 1 round is never enough for a woman in a day! And your comment on #8 is even more fullish!
African culture is totally diferent from western culture.There are so many theories about sexual relationship in the homes. Some have said if the wife asks to have sex at a particular time, in some of the culture she will be likened to a whore so many women don’t ask their husbands and some cases the husband may want sex at this time but the wife is not in the mood and it is the opposite way and now if we say having sex with the wife who does not have a due concert is a crime then every one in Zambia has committed a crime as most of the women are taught the same at the chibwanse gathering. Now you people give us the proper time when to have sex because some of the men are in back shifts when they come in the morning they will find the wife alread waken up and out of bed
Yes this will be a wonderful idea,we are tired of faking headaches.We need to be protected by law..
Well there you go again mwebena Zed. Ati marital what? Sex is a gift from God and it has to be enjoyed by married people. Imagine a husband is hot and wants a good bang and the wife refuses. What options has he got? Go bang a prostitute or the maid not so? Remenber sex is a drive like hunger. Once hungry the solution is to eat. The other option is also to legalise poligamy so that if one wife wants to exercise her human rights the other may be needing to satisfy the sexual drive.
The Act does not need to be specific about whether it is the husband or not. Rape is rape and the courts can interprete according to precedent in case law.
what marital rape are u talking about..should men start having other sexual partners to satisfy themselves.. now?they have the right to have sex with their wives..atase..these human rights!
women should at times put themselves in men’s boots, when they desire we give them, when its us ati ninaka sana! kutumpa we know the option!
kind of childish
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