Women have already raised serious misgivings about the Bill and questioned its constitutionality. Women hold the view that the Bill, as it stands today, will not pass the constitutional test. Women are concerned that this Bill will strip them of their democratic rights to choose magistrates' courts if they so wish. There is a concern that women, including widows, have already suffered abuse, such as eviction from their homes and land by the largely all-male traditional chiefs, brothers-in-law, and so on. In some of the provinces and rural areas ...