‘Talking shop’ has its rewards


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 31 Aug 2003

The smart partnership movement that started with the Langkawi International Dialogue in 1995 entered its eighth year with the staging of the Global 2003 International Dialogue in Swaziland recently.K.Y.PUNG highlights some of the events that occurred

MARRIED Swazi men keep a spare hut in their house compounds for sex. Their multiple wives have to housekeep this hut but they must not sleep in it. Swazi men are adamant in defending this generations-old tradition, claiming it as a right that is beyond dispute. 

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