Polygamy Controversy: South Africa Divided Over Tradition vs. Modern Values

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Polygamy Controversy: South Africa Divided Over Tradition vs. Modern Values


Vuyo Mgwelo reports on polygamy being debated in South Africa. Many are divided over the age-old tradition due to modern values.

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  1. So its a problem when a man wants to do the proper thing and make a commitment to the other woman? We rather he call her his girlfriend for life have bastard kids. They want it to be illegal to do the right thing, but be okay to have sex with someone without commiting to them? 🤔

  2. Polygamy is and will never end cheating because men will go out due to boredom and he'll always try new things especially young women when all of you are no more exciting and old and again cannot do certain things due to age so dream on

  3. It's necessary to guarantee an healthy population growth and keeping single women off the streets.

    Edit: The west and the east are suffering population collapse, if only they practiced polygamy

  4. As long as they're willing participants and the man is financially responsible I see no problem with it. If a woman pays for the right to be polygamous, is financially responsible for her husbands then I see no problem with it either.

  5. I don't personally agree with polygamy, but that doesn't make it wrong. What I don't agree with is when women and girls are forced into it. BTW. . . this road runs both ways. Let women have multiple husbands 🤔

  6. Men will have multiple partners regardless. In America polygamy was banned in the 1860’s and men still have side chicks, girlfriends, mistresses, etc in addition to one wife.

  7. The controversy here boils down to NewSpeak / DoubleThink.
    Polygamy is practised everywhere but called by different names.
    In the traditional world, they acquire the honour of a man's family name and maintenance from him, and this is called Polygamy.
    In the liberal world, they dedicate their valuable wifely years to getting ran through in the streets by a tiny minority of players and pimps, and this is called Dating.
    But since Up is becoming Down, and Down is becoming Up, so then then proper ways are becoming controversial.

  8. The first thing Christianity get rid off was polygamy for a bunch of reasons:
    a) lowering chances of inbreeding (modern day hook-up culture among western blcks have a ton of issues with half-siblings unknowingly having kids).
    b) gives more men a reason to engage in society because they have families to care for instead a few of them monopolising the chances of leaving a genetic legacy, which leads to…
    c) huge parental investment in the forms of passing knowledge, techniques (cultural capital) then,
    d) more peaceful societies since men have a lot to lose and not needing to rely on violence to get something, also giving them a reason to join military in case of war.