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The practice of ukuthwalwa has been apologised as a mock abduction or an irregular proposal intended to achieve a traditional law marriage.(Bennett Customary Law in South Africa -2004) [14] [failed verification]
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Ukuthwalwa is "the practice of a man abducting a young girl and forcing her into marriage," whereas the presumption behind marry-your-rapist is that the underage victim of a rape is pressured into marriage to save the perpetrator from prosecution. Please explain why this doesn't make the "marry-your-rapist" reference inappropriate.
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Petro Zheji (18 October 1929 – 14 March 2015 [1]) was an Albanian linguist, translator, philosopher and author.He lived and worked intellectually in Tirana. [2] As a polyglot, he was deeply knowledgeable in the Italian, French, English, Spanish, German, Russian, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin languages. [1]