Ms Tina Ndlovu:

I will say something to correct you, Chairman. It is not a story. When I hear the word "story" it is like a tale that is simply being told. These are serious cases. We have been through a great deal. I will talk in a neutral matter and not specifically about my case. The reason women are fleeing Zimbabwe is child marriages. The issue is still active, as I speak. Committee members can check the BBC interviews in which young girls are being interviewed about why they had a child when they were 13 or 14 years of age. These girls come here and tell their case. The officers tell the girls they are lying. How can they say I am lying when they were not there when the incident happened? I am telling my case because it happened to me. I am seeking protection and the officers are telling me that I am lying. It upsets me because I have been trying to prove to the officers for the past three and a half years that I have been through this. Then, at the end of the day, the officers are telling me that I can go back home and that I cannot live here. They say a certain part of my country is okay and that it is better for me to live there and that I cannot live in another country. That is my experience.