Court taps into customs, denies siblings right to bury their own mother

Among the Maragoli, taking dowry from two husbands comes with consequences. [Courtesy]

A court has tapped into the Maragoli “Omwandu” customary laws to order that a woman who married two husbands that later passed on be buried next to her first husband because the second, who cohabited with her for 60 years, was a mere wife inheritor.