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Son impregnates widowed mother
Written by ZG/Sundaymail   
Sunday, 22 April 2007

Farai is also said to have admitted making his mother pregnant "to protect her" from relatives who were accusing her of promiscuity. A SMALL hut with a collapsed caved-in roof stands in the middle of Muputirwa village deep in the forests of Mwenezi.

Outside the deserted hut are four, thin, but vicious dogs whose barking is intimidating.

There is no sign of their master at the house that once belonged to 23-year-old Farai Mbereko, who left the whole village stunned when he made his 40-year-old-widowed mother Betty pregnant.

The "couple" has since left the village with Betty reportedly staying in Mozambique while Farai is said to be working in Chiredzi.

According to The Sunday Mail, the couple had fled a week earlier under pressure from village elders.

However, many villagers reluctantly spoke of how the whole area is still living in shock at the bizarre incident.

It was difficult to get information from them as some went into a deathly silence, saying that talking about the issue angered them.

The few who spoke said they were happy that the two had left the village.

"This is strange. I have never heard of such an unholy union since I was born 67 years ago. It is dirty, embarrassing, obscene and worse than gay relationships," said Mr Sauro Moyo, a villager.

Even young children said they had heard of the incident but were not allowed to speak about it or go near the Mbereko homestead.

"They are no longer there but their four dogs will bite you if you go there. Our parents told us that we should not go to that house as it is cursed," said a child near the homestead.

Villagers said Mbereko had left the village for her native Mozambique following orders by the late village head, Mr Joseph Muputirwa.

She was also afraid of being arrested for incest.

Pressure from villagers, who had destroyed the roof of her hut and threatened to burn it down, resulted in her leaving in a huff last Tuesday.

Another villager, Mr Tafirenyika Dhewa, said Mbereko, who is currently nine months pregnant, spent her last days locked inside her house. They only saw her ferrying her property to a bus stop in an ox-drawn cart on Tuesday morning.

Her husband died 12 years ago leaving her with four children. Farai was the eldest and inherited his father’s belongings that included cattle.

Mother and son would go to drink kachasu together and Farai is said to have beaten up any prospective suitor who dared court his mother.

"We were surprised when they spilled the beans that Farai was responsible for his mother’s pregnancy when the pregnancy started showing," said a villager, Mr Oliver Dhewa.

He said Farai was the first to leave the village two weeks ago and that his whereabouts were not clear.

"I heard he illegally crossed into South Africa, but some say he is working in Chiredzi. Others believe he is in Beitbridge," he said.

Mbereko is said to have decided that it was better to "marry" Farai because she was not interested in her late husband’s younger brothers.

When the two "lovebirds" appeared before a village court recently, Mbereko initially denied that she was carrying her son’s child.

According to another villager, Mbuya Esnath Moyo, Mbereko stunned the villagers when she later admitted that the love affair with her son had begun three years earlier.

She poured out her love for her son, who is 17 years her junior, saying after spending a lot of money sending him to school following the death of her husband, she felt she had the right to his money and no other woman was supposed to benefit.

Farai is also said to have admitted making his mother pregnant "to protect her" from relatives who were accusing her of promiscuity.

He stunned the village court when he openly said he was more than prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the lobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents.

Village head Mr Muputirwa said: "We cannot allow this to happen in our village, mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a bad omen indeed).

"In the past if such a thing happened, they would have to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police."

He said he had warned the two to either break their marriage or leave his village immediately. Mother and son chose the latter option.

"How will they obtain a birth certificate for that child. What will they call him and what will the baby call both of them?"
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‘I wanna marry my son’

Sunday August 17, 2008 00:49 - (SA)

A Zimbabwean woman and her son have done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with one another.

And now they want to marry since the mom, Betty Mbereko from Mwenezi in Masvingo, is six months pregnant and expecting her son’s child.

Mbereko (40), who was widowed 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child, Farai Mbereko (23).

She confirms that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it is better to “marry” her son because she does not want to marry her late husband’s young brothers, whom she says are coveting her.

Betty stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her son had begun three years earlier.

She said after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school following the death of her husband, she felt she had a right to his money and no other woman was entitled to it.

“Look, I strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong.

“Let me enjoy the products of my sweat,” she told the village court.

Farai said he was more than prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the ilobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents.

“I know my father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said.

“It is better to publicise what is happening because people should know that I am the one who made my mother pregnant. Otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity.”

But local headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village, mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a bad omen indeed). In the past they would have to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.”

He warned them to break off their marriage or leave his village.

They chose the latter and have left the village for an unknown destination. – The Weekend Tribune