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Barmaids having a hard time finding husbands

By SILAS NYANCHWANI and TONY MALESI

Travails and predicaments of barmaids coupled with the burden of recently enforced VAT, have pushed them to a tight corner and they now want nothing but marriage! They insist that theirs is a job, just like the others. Most are single mothers after being ‘used’ by men who never hang around for too long. Some have to cheat that they are hoteliers, but the moment their partners learn they are barmaids, relationships collapse.

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