Posted on 05/26/2017 6:07:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Vusumuzi Mthembu, writing on polygamy in the Nguni culture, said: "Bathi asiganwe umfazi ngamunye. Lezi zintombi ezingangotshani zizophelelaphi? Ziyogana izinyamazane? Phinde!" Translated, it says "They say we must be married to one wife. What will then happen to these many women? Who will they marry? Deers? Never!"
Perhaps the question Vusumuzi would have to answer today is: "If we want to marry many wives, can we afford to?"
And this is what the University of KwaZulu-Natal's cultural expert, Gugu Mkhize says all polygamists-to-be must consider -- the financial implications of the practice.
"Polygamy seems not viable in the 21st century if you can't afford it," she told on Wednesday HuffPost SA.
This is especially important in an age where marriages in general have been found to be buckling under money pressures, with financial strain being the biggest cause of marital conflict and marriage breakdowns. This, then, can be exacerbated in a polygamous situation....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.co.za ...
For your interest.
All over the world it is the same. Women are dependents.
Women are mans children. Then they have children and those are also mans children.
Whether they are grateful and loving back, or not. What a frigging great deal there.
It was that way when we lived in caves. Nothing changes much.
When I was in India, I saw a few polygamists who were unemployed drunks. Their wives would go out to work everyday though. I never figured out what was in it for them.
Shakespeare it ain't. Looks more like a cat walked across the keyboard.
The biggest penalty for having more than more than one wife is having more than one mother-in-law.
Sort of: "you can't do it, if you can't do it."
Nothing coming from South Africa surprises me-——it’s a geographically beautiful pit.
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Saw a Mormon polygamist “family” on TV many years ago. Several of the “sister wives” had careers and the others stayed home to do the domestic work and raise the kids. The man also worked; overall about 4-5 incomes took care of about 20 people.
Complicated.
Pretty soon you can be raking in close to half a million off all them American taxpaying suckers. And you be styling with your feet up all day long while your women feed you peeled grapes and they do all the work and baby-raising.
Mark Twain got into an argument with a Mormon over polygamy and was challenged to prove from scripture that it was wrong.
He immediately answered: “No man can serve two masters!”
Marry sisters.
In the US all you have to do is get all your wives and kids on govt assistance
Matthew 19:4 “Haven’t you read,” he (Christ) replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Do you want a list of polygamists in the Bible?
Does South Africa have welfare for single mothers and their children? That’s how Britain’s Moslem polygamists afford it, and how the American West’s Mormon polygamists afford it. The government supports the women and children, while the man is free as a bird, or the breeze.
This particular man has dependents. In most of Africa, at the ordinary economic level, poverty, women work as much as men - more, in agricultural communities. Sometimes, the men don't work at all and aren't expected to.
Many of the Mormon offshoot polygamists rely on welfare. The women are legally single, with a whole lot of children.
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