Qacha’s Nek, July 21 — Married off at 14, Mrs. ’Mathetso Majake spent her teenage years cooking and caring for a man twice her age. Today, at 60, she is no longer a victim she is a voice for change.
In her remote village of Mosenekeng, deep in Lesotho’s Qacha’s Nek district, Mrs. Majake is quietly leading a revolution to protect girls from the fate she endured. A widow, mother, and now grandmother, she is a passionate advocate against child marriage and a tireless supporter of girls’ education.
“I was abducted while we were fetching wood,” she recalls in an interview with the Agency. “My sister told me he wanted to marry me. I refused, but she convinced me to go.”
Thrown into adult responsibilities she didn’t understand, Mrs. Majake resisted at first.
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