Receiving bride price (lobola or roora) is every parent or guardian's wish when they marry off their daughters. The rite is usually marked by merry-making, bingeing and even prayer, as the new couple ...

Thanks to Locadia Karimatsenga for poking holes in the marriage framework presenting in the country. Some loopholes, that have long prejudiced women married in unregistered marriages, have been ...

2001-10-07 04:00:00 PDT Harare, Zimbabwe-- The church bells are pealing, the red hibiscus flowers are blazing and the jacaranda trees are shedding so many purple petals that the sidewalks seem awash ...

For two hours, the families of Tapiwanashe Gladys Simango (28) and her fiancé, Obvious Muzawanga (31) had engaged in a longstanding southern African marital tradition known as a roora in Shona and a ...