Zimbabwe: ‘When I Looked in the Mirror, I Knew I Had Had Enough of His Abuse’

Gwanda — “When I met this man, I thought I had been given another chance at love,” says 41-year-old Lungile*. She shifts uncomfortably on her seat. “I had no idea that things would turn out the way they did.”

Married to her husband for four years, they have one child together, aged four. Both were previously married and have children by their first partners. Initially, her second marriage brought renewed hope.

“The once-loving man I married turned into a monster,” she says.

Although he worked at…