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The Ondonga Traditional Authority has thrown its weight behind legalisation of polygamy in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n Spokesperson Frans Enkali says the authority supports the legalisation of polygamy as it is nothing new in their culture and traditions.<\/p>\n “In our African culture, there is nothing wrong with polygamy as long as it is between consenting adults. This is something that was practised by our ancestors,” he says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “The problem now is when people talk about polygamy, they bring in things of religion and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ondonga Traditional Authority has thrown its weight behind legalisation of polygamy in Namibia. Spokesperson Frans Enkali says the authority supports the legalisation of polygamy as it is nothing new in their culture and traditions. “In our African culture, there is nothing wrong with polygamy as long as it is between consenting adults. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9367,8514,4706,724,257,13711,254,9464],"class_list":["post-178992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-legalised","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-polygamy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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