A
mother and her son have done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with
one another. And now they want to marry since the mom, is six months pregnant
and expecting her son’s first child.
Mbereko (40), who was
widowed 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child, Farai Mbereko
(23). She confirms that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it
is better to “marry” her son because she does not want to marry her late
husband’s young brothers, whom she says are coveting her.
Betty stunned a village
court last week when she said the affair with her son had begun three years
earlier. She said after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school
following the death of her husband, she felt she had a right to his money and
no other woman was entitled to it.
“Look, I strove alone to
send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my son is working
and you accuse me of doing something wrong. “Let me enjoy the products of my
sweat,” she told the village court.
Farai said he was more than
prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the ilobola balance his father
had left unpaid to his grandparents. “I know my father died before he finished
paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said.
“It is better to publicize
what is happening because people should know that I am the one who made my
mother pregnant. Otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity.”
But local headman Nathan
Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village, mashura chaiwo
aya, (This is a bad omen indeed).
In the past they would have
to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.” He
warned them to break off their marriage or leave his village.
They chose the latter and
have left the village for an unknown destination
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