Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe
Grabbing property from the widows is a huge social problem in Zimbabwe. Despite recent changes and advances in policy frameworks in the country, once the husband dies, a widow still struggles to inherit the property accrued during the time of marriage irrespective of the kind of marriage entered int...
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| description | Grabbing property from the widows is a huge social problem in Zimbabwe. Despite recent changes and advances in policy frameworks in the country, once the husband dies, a widow still struggles to inherit the property accrued during the time of marriage irrespective of the kind of marriage entered into with the late husband. This paper discusses formal and informal social recourse experiences of the widows for grabbed property in Binga District in Zimbabwe. A qualitative research approach was adopted which purposely engaged ten widows in in-depth face-to-face interviews to gather their experiences on recourse. The results indicated that a few widows attempted locally available social recourse for grabbed property whilst many widows suffered in silence and never attempted to seek any recourse owing to various social and cultural reasons and expectations. Formal and informal locally available interventions have been found to have little significance as recourse for grabbed property. This state of affairs has proved to have dire psychosocial and socioeconomic consequences for widows and well-structured interventions proved vehemently needed. The conclusion was that locally available interventions for grabbed property were less viable social recourse measures for widows and did not serve to regain their lost property. This paper recommends the need for social work intervention at various levels to ameliorate the plight of widows in Binga District in Zimbabwe. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:199142022-09-28T15:31:22Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19914/ Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe Dube, Misheck Grabbing property from the widows is a huge social problem in Zimbabwe. Despite recent changes and advances in policy frameworks in the country, once the husband dies, a widow still struggles to inherit the property accrued during the time of marriage irrespective of the kind of marriage entered into with the late husband. This paper discusses formal and informal social recourse experiences of the widows for grabbed property in Binga District in Zimbabwe. A qualitative research approach was adopted which purposely engaged ten widows in in-depth face-to-face interviews to gather their experiences on recourse. The results indicated that a few widows attempted locally available social recourse for grabbed property whilst many widows suffered in silence and never attempted to seek any recourse owing to various social and cultural reasons and expectations. Formal and informal locally available interventions have been found to have little significance as recourse for grabbed property. This state of affairs has proved to have dire psychosocial and socioeconomic consequences for widows and well-structured interventions proved vehemently needed. The conclusion was that locally available interventions for grabbed property were less viable social recourse measures for widows and did not serve to regain their lost property. This paper recommends the need for social work intervention at various levels to ameliorate the plight of widows in Binga District in Zimbabwe. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19914/1/33424-104174-1-SM.pdf Dube, Misheck (2019) Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, 16 (5). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1823-884x https://ejournal.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1197 |
| spellingShingle | Dube, Misheck Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title | Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title_short | Social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in Binga district, Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | social recourse for grabbed property : the widows’ experiences in binga district, zimbabwe |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19914/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19914/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19914/1/33424-104174-1-SM.pdf |