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Uganda: Vice president dumps her husband for wife-beating
Off Our Backs, May/Jun 2002 by Douglas, Carol Anne, Heart, Debony, Ruby, Jennie, Mantilla, Karla
KAMPALA-High office is no protection against domestic violence. Africa's highest-ranking woman politician, Uganda Vice President Specioza Kazibwe, has separated from her husband because he beat her.
"Why should I continue staying with a man who beats me? I told him-how can you beat a Vice President?" she told women legislators after she kicked him out of the house, which she built.
Her husband, an engineer, said that he "merely" slapped her. "She had come home late at three in the morning and could not give a satisfactory reason," he told the press. "She had teamed up with some women politicians of whom I didn't approve, and they went out a lot," he said.
Perhaps her example will make it easier for other women to leave their husbands.
-info from BBC
news compiled by cad, debony heart,
jennie ruby, and karla mantilla
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