PASTOR BAKHE SPARKS DEBATE ON MEN WASHING WIVES’S UNDERWEAR

MBABANE – Is there anything wrong with a man washing his partner’s underwear? This public debate was sparked by a Facebook post by Pastor Bakhe Dlamini on Sunday. In his post, Dlamini encouraged men to wash their wives’ underwear and further saw nothing wrong about it.

In the post, Dlamini says there is nothing unclean with a woman’s underwear and adds that had it been unclean, sexual intercourse would also be unclean. He says if men like ‘the cookie’, they should also like what covers ‘the cookie’. It seems his message was also directed to Christians as he says they should be liberated and demonstrate love. He encourages people to wash their wives’ underwear if they find them in the sink or bathtub.

“She does the same with yours. We need to be fair and not use being ‘men’ as an excuse not to care. I do that for my wife,” reads the post in part. Random interviews gave differing opinions on the matter. The interviews were not based on Dlamini’s post, per se but on whether men should wash their partners’ underwear or not. Sabelo Sifundza said it was unheard of for men to wash their partners’ underwear. Sifundza discouraged it and wondered what women would do when men did the washing.  Sifundza said he would never wash a woman’s underwear and does not allow women to wash his.

He said he believed in doing things for himself but stated that he would only allow his wife to wash his after he marries. He said he did not have time to wash a woman’s underwear. Richard Gamedze, a traditionalist, said it was against Swazi culture to wash a woman’s underwear and regarded as taboo.  “In meetings, opinions of men who wash women’s underwear are not recognised,” Gamedze said.

Indvuna Lusendvo Fakudze said culturally, washing a woman’s underwear was a crime. Fakudze discouraged it and added that the King said people should take what was good from the western culture and do away with what was not. He said the issue at hand should also be looked at in that view. He said people were not the same and had different preferences.

When reached for comment, Dlamini, through his secretary, said he was not for the publishing of the story as it was his personal post. Information about the public Facebook page in which Dlamini had posted on stated that he was a public figure, with 25 469 likes and 26 046 followers yesterday.

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