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Lilongwe vendors undress women in ‘leggings’
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By Nyasa Times Reporters |
January 17, 2012 · 149 Comments |
Irate male youth claiming to be street sellers in the capital city Lilongwe on Tuesday embarrassingly striped naked women who had put on trousers and the latest trend in fashion amongst the ladies, the leggings.
The boys accused the women of improper and indescent dressing.
Nyasa Times correspondent Dennis Chirwa said he saw the gang stripping naked women putting on trousers and they were tearing them into pieces.
The whole saga started in the populous township of Chinsapo where vendors were showering insults on any lady putting on a trouser or mini skirt.
At old town near Shoprite, a lady who was in a min skirt was rescued by a fellow woman after vendors descended on her.
Vendors said some women dressing like these are provocative. This picture had nothing to do with the attack in Lilongwe
According to Aubrey Mayowe, who was at the scene of the incidence, the vendors started showering insults to the lady, “ Pita kavale iwe osatu zomwe wavalazo. Abwana atiuza kuti mkazi wovala trouser amawoneka ngati chidole tizikuvulani (go and dress up properly not the the way you have put on. The President has said any woman who puts on a trouser is like a doll).
He went on to narrate that after things went sour a fellow woman who was driving evacuated her to safety.
Many ladies in the capital city were forced to buy wrappers to cover their knee shot skirts in fear of being stripped naked.
At the main entrance of Shoprite there were many girls, who were hiding in fear of vendors.
Esther Mbalule, a resident of Area 49 told Nyasa Times that she could not even move an inch to board a bus because vendors were threatening to undress them.
She said there were ugly scenes around Shoprite, Game Stores and Constantine Company.
Another Nyasa Times correspondent Wanga Gwede said he saw a woman with her boobs, buttocks caressed in public by the boys.
One of the boys said the sexual attractive ‘see through’ leggings “were provocative” to the men.
“This is an exercise to teach woman how to dress,” one of the young boys is reported to have said.
In Area 23 Police fired teargas as the angry men were pelting stones on the law enforcers.
A Nyasa Times correspondent Jeromy Kadewrere witnessed men hunting for women in mini buses at the Lilongwe bus station.
Lilongwe police spokesman Kingsley Dandula assured that the police will protect all ladies in trousers and min skirts because it was their right to freedom of dressing according to the constitution.
The pandemonium on Tuesday brought business in the capital city to a standstill as many shops closed in fear of violence.
Minister of Gender Reeen Kachere has since expressed dismay with the conduct of the boys calling it “mob sexual harrassment” and some activist swarned that if the stripping of women naked is not brought to a stop, the women will crush perpetrators.
Vendors at the main entrance of Game stores shop selling Zitenje in Lilongwe which were on demand after attacks on women.Photo: Jeromy Kadewere/Nyasa Times
Under one party dictatorship, late President Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda disapproved of liberal Western fashions and restricted freedom of dressing.
However, things changed when the country adopted democracy and Bakili Muluzi assumed the Presidency in 2004, the new constitution allowed women to wear pants instead of obligatory ankle-length dresses and permitted men to sport shoulder-length hair.
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Well a Malawi mwanyanya kodi malegginwo ochita kuonetsa ndi clitoris yomwe, angle yose ya pa pubis eeeeeh . Mzimai azizilemekeka ena mwaonjeza. Remember if a man is provoked by you you are guilty of sin, timachimwa pakuganiza you know it . Mai mzanu ovala mozilemekeza
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ReplyKodi inuyo tauni yake iti imene mukunenayo ndi pa zambia pomwe simunafikepo osangokhala chete bwanji sukulunso munathawira panjira mukalowa pa net ndiye kuti ndi phone yopatsidwanso
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ReplyAphuzire kuvala bwino,zanyanya!
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Replywe are in the 21st century and that is the fashion of now whether you like it or not,people have the right to dress how they want what hurts these people we call vendors so much that they have to committee suc an insult towards innocent women?
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Reply@144 and who told u kuti ma trouser ndi anyamata osati atsikana? We hide behind the Bible saying kuti Deuteronomy 22:5 says a woman shud not wear a man’s clothes, what is man’s clothes? Nthawi imene Bible inkalembedwa, what were men and women wearing? All of them were just wearing gowns that covered them all the way to their feet. Let’s not hide behind the Bible when we do not agree with things. Face the facts. And if u think it’s so evil since u r the christians, how abt not judging as the same Bible u read says? How abt letting pple b condemned by God instead of u condemning them since u r christians and belong to a christian country. I am a Malawian, bt please let’s stop hiding behind the Bible wen we have no absolute reason for executing such stupid behaviors. Maybe if u r so eager to go back to the way pple used to dress back then remember that there was a time wen azimayi ankangobisa mabele ndi pamaliseche. How abt we go back to that?? Will u undress us then? Because that will b us going back to the way Malawian women used to dress.
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Replyaaaaa eeee anchita bwinno …ma trouser ndi a nyamata osati akzi!!!!!
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ReplyThis is unfair truly ??????????????
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ReplyStripping women naked will do nothing to the problems we are facing as Malawians.
As the end result the same vendors will suffer because almost 70% of things that vendors sale are sold to women, women buys anything chasangalatsa than men. And also for a vendor to make profits he sale women related merchandises.
So if women just agree today that they should not buy anything from a street vendor, who will suffer, & by the end of the day who will be the winner
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Replyvendors think they can control peoples rights. its a shame that educated respected people are harrassed by these good for nothing people called vendors. who are you vendors? ngati mukusowa ndalama mubwere tikulembeni ntchito osati muzivula azimayi ndi atsikana okongola athuwa. mbuzi za anthu inu enanu munathawa milandu yoba nkhuku za eni mmidzi lero mulaweko mkazi wa kutawuni pomuumiriza. ndipodi sanakakulorani sisaizi yanu anthu osatsuka mkamwa inu. from today mavenda azikhala registered. si za chimidzi zanuzo ayi kuthawa kulima kumudzi afisi inu. ife sitinavotere venda kuti atilamulire anthu osaphunzira akuba ngati amenewa. samalani mutha mwachinunu muwona.
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