Befriend your hubby's small house to fight HIV says MDC-T MP

by Staff reporter

2012 May 15 09:46:04 | 1770 Views

An MDC-T legislator who is at the centre of a proposal to legalise prostitution, Thabitha Khumalo, has suggested that married women should keep their husbands' girlfriends close in order to help curb the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

All men will cheat at some point â€“ and so it is up to their wives to strike an "understanding" with their (husband's) mistresses to avoid transferring sexually-transmitted diseases, the MDC-T MP for Bulawayo East told a journalist, Jennifer Dube.

According to the report by the Standard newspaper, The MP was reacting to a comment by Vice President Joice Mujuru who last week revealed her husband's double lifestyle with other women, and said that "most marriages fail because we want to fight with other women who are reportedly seeing our husbands". Urging women not to engage in strife, Mujuru had said that women must be "faithful and trustworthy" and should engage in building the family "where you see strife."

Adding to Mujuru's remarks, Khumalo told the Standard: "That is brilliant advice. Under normal circumstances, he is expected to be yours alone, but I am sorry to say in reality, these men engage with other women and thus you have zero chances of having him all to yourself."

Khumalo said that women should establish close friendship with their husband's girlfriend "so that they know the whereabouts of their men ".

She warned that fighting the other woman, commonly referred to locally as a "small house", will push their men to other women exposing the wife to infections and re-infections.

"Befriend the small house, understand the woman your man is with and safeguard your health and his," she said.

She urged wives to establish a good rapport with their husbands' "small houses", as that way, they would always know the whereabouts of their husbands.

HIV MDC Khumalo

Source: news