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Mini-skirts do not imply prositituiton, JKK as PAC speaks
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By Green Muheya, Nyasa Times |
January 23, 2012 · 68 Comments |
Women who are donning of mini-skirts do not represent prostitutes, says outspokesn president of the Chancellor College Academic Staff Union, Dr. Jesse Kabwila-Kapasula.
Kabwila-Kapasula was dispelling the thinking after unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors stripped some women in Lilongwe and Mzuzu for mainly wearing mini-skirts, trousers and leggings.
Kabwila-Kapasula: Mini-skirts freedom
Some sections of the society have also been advocating for the ban on ladies from putting on miniskirts, saying the skirts are tempting men into reckless sex behaviour and thereby escalating the HIV scourge.
But Kabwila –kapasula said that was wrong thinking.
“Mini-skirts do not denote prostitution,” she said at the event organised by leading rights activists to protests against the attack oon women.
“You can be a prostitute in whatever dress,” said Kabwila-Kapasula.
President Bingu wa Mutharika Thursday ordered police to arrest ‘anybody seen harassing women’, saying women were free to wear what they desire.
Some men commenting on Nyasa Times and social networking sites said women should be protected for exercising their freedom of dressing as enshrined in the Constitution but urged them to take their rights with responsibility by desisiting from wearing clothes “that rouse sex appetite.”
PAC speaks
Meanwhile, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a grouping of religious leaders in Malawi says it is concerned n over the developments that have taken place regarding the unwelcome treatment to women based on their style of dressing.
PAC appeals to all those who are involved in such acts to immediately refrain from such conduct and allow women to freely move in the markets and entire cities of Malawi.
“We feel that these scenes of attacking women defeat the whole purpose of ushering in the hard-won democracy,” said PAC in a statement signed by its chairperson Reverend MacDonald Kadawati.
“Women are part of our society and the dressing we witness today has not started this year,” the statement e-mailed to Nyasa Times said.
PAC further call upon all faith-based organizations to educate and advise their followers to exercise restraint as they express grievances on issues that affect them.
The faith group said it will further consider holding prayers on the “unfortunate” developmet.
Until 1994, women in this deeply conservative poor nation were banned from wearing pants, during the long dictatorship of Kamuzu Banda.
Women arrive to participate in a sit-in in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre on Friday to defend their right to wear pants. Photo: AFP
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ReplyNonono!!! Malawian women don’t dress nearly as bad as Rihanna.. Don’t make excuses, amuna akumalawi have problems. You kneed to start respecting women no matter how they dress.. Every woman wants to dress and look sexy and you just need to respect that the world is changing.. Get a grip!!
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ReplyMen in Malawi doesn’t matter how a woman dress even kuvala chachitali azibambo okwatilawA kufalisa ma HIV amakufusilabe chibwezi chimizi every country women r allowed to dress anything hule ndi hule ngati tima john kabudulato simukipanga disclipe menyesani kukhoma willy yanuyo or musturbate silly fools
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ReplyYour dress and dressing make up a sign that tells people all about you. Since we use human rights in various, mostly, twisted ways, i think, atleast for now, it’s up to an individual to show others what he/she wants them to say about him/her.
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ReplyAre you for real?? I’m happily married, mother of 2, very educated, and I wear ma minskirts, leggings, ndi ma trouser.. My husband met me that way and he married me that way and he loves me dearly.. Mamuna wako ngati akuchoka nyumba kukashowa kunja, munyumbamo muli vuto.. Azimayi akumalawi, simukuona kuti azimuna akumachoka nyumba nkumakayang’ana ovala ma min skirt ndi ma leggings? Why cant you start dressing like that to keep thinks fresh in your marriage? Musanamizire atsikana ominula, azimuna a kumalawi ali ndi vuto..now don’t make excuses for them. Anazolowera kuzuza azikazi.. If you are a woman, I pitty you for thinking kuti tikuwayamba ma vendorwa.. No matter how a woman dresses, a real man will protect a woman not strip them naked.. What’s the difference between Malawian men and men from other countries.. Amuna akumalawi nyele kwambiri? As my husband always say” stop looking at a woman as a sex object, respect a woman and protect a woman.. Making excuses for this kind of behavior is just beyond me.. You are an idiot!!!
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ReplyMalawian girl living abroad.in the first place Germany is on earth planet.being in Germany doesn’t mean that other malawians have not visited Germany.I once lived in cologne for your information and the people you mention kuti amayenda maliseche are naturalist.some of these azungus takes kanundu and are high on drugs.they was a recent uproar about rihanna in uk the way she dressed herself on stage.a lot of parents complained that rihanna was a bad role model to young girls because of the style of her attire of being half naked and yet this is uk.so malawians should fail to voice out things,just because some lost out girls in Malawi are parading themselves halfnaked in the mzunguland?Malawi will voice it out wherever they feel things are not right.they are not going to get scared just because some malawian girls are walking halfnaked in some german pubs to be bonked by the mzungu..german german chaninso apa..zamkuthu!!!!
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ReplyJKK will very soon mislead a lot of empty heads!Scientifically,what she is saying is not valid!Well,am not surprised-she is an idiot who speaks using mere language!A lot of nitwits think what Kabwaila Kapasula says is all true,let me challenge you,she she is all fallacy!If you knew the physiology of sight and action followed,you would soon sob in agony having realised that this nincompoop is all nothin!
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