PASTOR: DIVORCING HUSBAND FOR ANOTHER MAN ‘BUGWADLA’

PIGG’S PEAK – Though a woman can marry a selfish, short-tempered, abusive or someone who does not care, she cannot leave such a person unless he is deceased.

This was a message delivered by Pastor Thandekile Zulu of Sigangeni, who was the guest speaker during the Ntfojeni Tripartite Church Service held at Ntfonjeni Royal Residence yesterday.
Zulu is also a teacher by profession.
Noteworthy, is that though this has not been common in the past, a female preacher was the guest speaker during the service.
Zulu said as long as the first husband was still alive, the wife was bound by the Bible not to leave him.
She also quoted from the biblical book of Romans 7: 1-4, which likens a wife who leaves her husband to marry another man to an adulterer.
The siSwati version of the Bible uses the word, ingwadla which means prostitute.

Zulu said she was speficically referring to a situation where a woman may seem to have the right to leave her husband.
She referred to a situation where a husband became so abusive such that the situation became unbearable for the woman.
“The only time she is free to marry another man is when the first husband is deceased,” emphasised Zulu.

She said this was why under Swazi law and custom, even a woman who had long deserted her husband was often recalled to mourn the death of her spouse.
“Even if you can go and live in another country, the law of marriage cannot end unless your husband dies,” she said. She said the only advice she could give women in such situations where their husbands were abusive was to hang in the marriage.

“He is bone of your bones, flesh of your flesh, meaning that you go with him wherever you are,” she said.
Zulu said some women even tried to kill their husbands to liberate themselves from the marriage.
She said the only time a woman would become victorious was if and when she gave her life to God.
“That’s the only way you can kill your husband,” she said.

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