“A WOMAN is not your slave.” That was the warning from Magistrate Charity Milambo as she threw out a reconciliation case after a woman from Garden Compound told the court that her husband beat her for failing to wash his clothes due to pain from two caesarean sections. This is a matter in which 28-year-old Nelson Mulemi of Garden Compound had dragged his wife, 24-year-old Gift Mulenga of Mtendere East, to court for marriage reconciliation, stating that she deserted their marital home. He said his wife left their home in October last year and refused to return even after he followed her to her parents’ house. Gift, however, told the court she left because she was being mistreated while recovering...