Domestic violence should not be condoned as it is not our culture as said by SAfAIDS Zimbabwe Director Loice Chingandu.

According to her this is fuelling the spread of HIV as partners are engaging in promiscuous behavior knowing that they will use power of force to silence their spouses if asked. “Partners do not have a say in the behavior of their partners. They fear to be beaten,” she went on. This is making it difficult to enhance condom use in homesteads if one has a violent husband thus spreading the HIV virus. Chingandu encouraged people to follow the way things were conducted back in the days whereby elders where consulted if there was an issue that would cause disharmony between a couple. “Headmans, churches and elders let us help each other to instill harmonious living conditions in Zimbabwe. We have adopted the English way of living and dropped our native ways yet we are failing to live both ways as they should be. We are caught in between with nowhere where we are linked to or good at so elders should help us do the right thing,” she said.

Zimbabweans have been commemorating 16 days against Gender Based Violence as from the 25^th of November and they will stretch to the 10^th of December. The focus of these days is mostly on women and children as they suffer the most due to domestic violence.

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