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Unsolicited advice:
Kubvisirwa lobola on its own doesn’t amount to a marriage in the eyes of the law. Kana wakabvisirwa lobola woregedza kuregister “marriage” yenyu, mutemo unokutii muri in an Unregistered Customary Law Union (UCLU). Section 17(3) of the Marriages Act sets out the implications of failing to register an UCLU. Critical to note is that the implications differentiate an UCLU from a civil partnership.
Kana mabvisirana lobola, you can register your marriage as a civil marriage or as a customary marriage. The nature of a marriage is critical in that a civil marriage is monogamous while a customary marriage is potentially polygamous. What this means is that a spouse married under a civil marriage can’t enter into another marriage during the subsistence of their marriage or else they’ll be liable to a charge of bigamy while a husband married under customary law can have more than two wives at the same time.
Let me also dispel the widely held misconception that once there’s a marriage certificate it means murume haakwanise kuita barika. The type of marriage parties enter into determines whether or not murume anogona kuita barika. You can enter into a registered customary marriage, wopihwa marriage certificate murume obva aroora umwe mukadzi and there’s nothing you can do about it legally because it’s allowed. In other words marriage certificate doesn’t necessarily mean kuti munhu haakwanise kuita barika. The nature of the marriage determines that.
Also note that a customary marriage can be “upgraded” to a civil marriage but a civil marriage can’t be “downgraded” to a customary marriage. So gents think hard before you marry.
Some might want to ask why there’s such a classification which seemingly favors civil marriages and condemns the most common type of “marriage” in Zim ie UCLUs. That’s a topic for another day.
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