MANY Zimbabweans — both men and women — are strongly opposed to the idea of husbands assuming their wives’ surnames. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the overwhelming majority of interviewees said it was “taboo”, allegedly “ungodly” and “alien” to all local cultures to do that. This comes after South Africa’s Constitutional Court…

In our tradition, it is men who pay lobola, and wives who leave their parents to live with their husbands
