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Publications and source records attributed to Zimbabwe.

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First Five-Year National Development Plan, 1986-1990.

Provisions of this Zimbabwe Development Plan relating to population and family planning are as follows: "Government will continue to extend family planning services to all parts of the country in order to further reduce population growth to levels consistent with economic growth and the objective of raising the living standards of society."

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Customary Law and Primary Courts Amendment Act, 1982.

Among other things, this Zimbabwe Act amends the principal Act to provide that "a community court shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in customary law, regard 1) the person who, according to customary law, is the husband of a woman as being primarily responsible for the maintenance of that woman during the marriage and, after the dissolution of their marriage, until her remarriage [and] 2) the father of a child as being primarily responsible for the maintenance of that child until the child attains the age of majority."

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Matrimonial Causes Amendment Act, 1987 (No. 11 of 1987).

This Act amends the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1985, a) to extend the grounds for divorce applicable to civil marriages to marriages solemnized in terms of the African Marriages Act; and b) to widen the powers of the court to make a division of assets on divorce by authorizing it to make consequential and supplemental provisions necessary to give full effect to any order it makes and to make an order relating to the property of one or another spouse that is held by another person and thereby order that person to transfer the property as the court directs.

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