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Pregnant children, marital rape victims have a right to abortion, High Court rules
A law denying access to legal abortion for children below the age of 18 and married women who are victims of marital rape is unconstitutional, the Harare High Court has declared in a landmark ruling....Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:40hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Rapex to trap rapists, protect women
SONETTE Ehlers, a blood technician from South Africa envisioned a world free from rape and invented the rape axe in 2005, which has received mixed reactions from the public.Ehlers invented the...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:59hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi whitewashing hearings begin
PUBLIC hearings to document and resolve civil disturbances that transpired in some parts of the country in the 1980s are set to begin early next year, marking the commencement of a historically signif...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's amnesty for rapists hitting victims harder
EMELKA (not real name) was only 11 years old when a 59-year-old villager forced himself on her. The villager repeated the attack several times, threatening to kill the young girl using witchcraft if s...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC blasts Mnangagwa
Some of the more than 4,000 prisoners released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week include child rapists, it has emerged.One fiend who raped a nine-year-old girl had served ju...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi tears into Chief's Gukurahundi genocide manual
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized the diction used in crafting the chiefs' manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that it minimized the victims' experiences of t...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Adulterous man pays for girlfriend's divorce
AN adulterous Harare man has been ordered to pay ZW$100 000 adultery damages following a successful lawsuit by the husband of a woman he snatched away.Dambudzo Oliver Munyebvu was ordered to p...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails 3 Zimbabweans for rape, robbery
THREE Zimbabwean men are in Botswana's remand prison to answer robbery and rape charges.Desmond Khupe (19), Lucky Dube, (23) and Calvin Maphosa (43), who are all illegal migrants, were not ask...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Freddy says rape complainant seduced him
GOODNESS and Mercy Ministries founder Tapiwa Freddy yesterday claimed that the female broadcaster who has laid rape charges against him actually seduced him through audio messages and nude pictures....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Serial rapist in court
A KNIFE-WIELDING man who raped and robbed several women in Harare was arraigned before the courts yesterday.The rapist, Bessam Mahosi alias Kudzanai Gwaze Ambewe (37) appeared before magistrat...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rape clinic launches 72-hour campaign
THE Adult Rape Clinic (ARC) has launched a campaign that encourages victims of the crime to seek medical assistance within 72 hours to protect them from contracting HIV/Aids and pregnancies. T...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rape cases worry police
POLICE in Bulawayo have expressed worry at the increase in cases of rape which are mostly perpetrated by relatives.According to Bulawayo police spokesperson, Inspector Abednico Ncube, a week h...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri extradition hearing set for tomorrow
THE extradition hearing against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife, Mary, is expected to begin in the Lilongwe Magistrate's Court in Malawi tomorrow.The charismatic preache...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Western embassies over January 2019 'insurrection'
GOVERNMENT has condemned a coterie of Western embassies, which have gone on a co-ordinated and biased social media attack on Zimbabwe over the January 2019 violent protests that rocked the country's m...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A woman is raped daily in Bulawayo
ABOUT 30 women are raped in Bulawayo every month, statistics that have prompted police to issue an alert over the development and release rape hotspots around the city.Acting Bulawayo spokespe...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Late Zimbabwe VP exposed for raping Harare school teacher?
With so many rapes going unreported and unprosecuted, victims are instead forced by circumstances to commit paternity fraud. Most have managed to keep their secrets, but the arrival of affordable DNA ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:17hrs | 4 | by TRT World
Zimbabwe male MPs fuel gender violations
WHILE a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, the journey to women's emancipation seems so close yet so far!The day to day scenarios are characterised by women being victims of all...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
African Union and Sadc are spineless
A combined African Union (AU), Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and President Emmerson Mnangagwa trio-solution to the entangled, Zimbabwean problem will not yield the correct result. In p...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
78 police officers injured by protestors
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has alleged that 78 police officers were injured and 1 officer died during the violent protests that rocked Zimbabwe on January 14....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa claims that MDC-Alliance is 'putting sand in the food'
The MDC-Alliance sponsored so-called shutdown that left a trail of destruction of property and loss of life last month was part of the regime change agenda wrought against the country for the past 18 ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President ED unapologetic after the murder of 17 and alleged rape cases
President ED has embarrassed our women. While being interviewed in Addis Abbaba, he told the reporter that he needs to see the graves of the murdered Zimbabweans in order to accept that the Zimbabwe N...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:08hrs | 22 | by Don Chigumba
WATCH: Mnangagwa denies army killings and rape reports
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denied allegations that there were killings, torture and rape allegations committed by members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces.In an interview with France24 in ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt must compensate victims of army rape
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices.Dozens of women m...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa was behind shutdown,' says Mnangagwa's govt
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday claimed government's intelligence operatives had concluded that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party was responsible for the January 14 to 16 ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe military not above the law'
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said members of the security forces are not above the law and urged victims of brutality to report to the police for justice to take its course.Hundreds ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police to investigate rape allegations against officers
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that it is ready to investigate allegations of rape by citizens which are leveled against members of the police force.This was revealed by Chief of S...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
No rape case against soldiers has been reported to police yet
GOVERNMENT has urged women who were allegedly raped by some rogue members of the security forces to report the abuse to the police. The Zimbabwe Republic Police is also urging Non Governmental...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Rape, brutality as soldiers crash protests
THE violent clampdown on protesters by soldiers and the police has left deep scars and trauma on children and women who were beaten up, raped or were forced to watch as their husbands, fathers or brot...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru opens up on soldiers raping citizens
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has broken up her silence concerning the circulating allegations that members of the Zimbabwe National Army have been engaging in a systematic rape of citizens in pa...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'24 women raped daily in Zimbabwe'
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, which commenced on November 25, the nation continues to record high rates of violence agains...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed over false rape charge
A MUTARE man has been sentenced to one month in jail for filing a false rape report at Mutare Central Police Station. Takawira Chiwawa (25) was sentenced by Mutare magistrate Tendai Mahwe on Friday af...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross insensitive to rape victims
Editor, The statement by Eddie Cross that "We have to be careful about dropping our pants - we may get raped!" betrays how insensitive he is to victims of human rights abuses. Th...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by ZimRights
Baptism of fire for 'CIO' Bonyongwe
New Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Happyton Bonyongwe (pictured) had a baptism of fire in the National Assembly yesterday.Along with other new ministers in President Robert ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police worry over rape cases withdrawals
POLICE are worried by the increasing number of reported rape cases that are being withdrawn before the courts saying that is tantamount to defeating the course of justice.Speaking on the side-...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse contradicts 'rape victim' testimony
A NURSE, who examined a 19-year-old maid allegedly raped by a top army officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Rangarirai Kembo, yesterday told the court that the complainant appeared stable and that was not cons...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tilda Moyo Show' airs in court
Star FM radio presenter Tilda Moyo, who tricked a self-proclaimed Harare prophet, Onbert Mapfumo, into appearing on her show before he met his alleged rape victims, has told the court that the complai...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA Veterans 'undress' Mugabe, and blames Zanu-PF
ZPRA Veterans Association Speech Johannesburg Wednesday 21st March 2017 Salaam Alaykum brothers and sisters / Mabuyani/ SalibonaniThank you for ...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:52hrs | 13 | by ZPRA Veterans Association
Why Women's Rights May Never Be Guaranteed In Africa And The Middle East!
The large craving for gender equality and a continuous upgrade in affirmative action for women, may yield a generous amount of progress in the liberal world, but will continue quite sadly, to suffer r...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 01:11hrs | 2 | by Nimi Princewill
ARVs for HIV negative people
HIV negative people who are at high risk of contracting the deadly virus will soon be given anti-retroviral drugs as a preventive measure.Currently, life prolonging anti-retroviral drugs are b...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 06:22hrs | | by Alice Dube
Magaya rape accuser must be prosecuted.
Dear Editor. Please note I'm not a law guru but i think the woman who lied that she was raped by prophet Walter Magaya must be arrested and prosecuted for lying, wasting state resources and ta...Published: 04 Dec 2016 at 15:30hrs | | by Matigari Muchaneta
When rape produces a child
"HE would open the door while I am bathing to look at my naked body, he wanted to know when I was menstruating and said he had the right to 'inspect' me regularly. One day after bathing he walked in a...Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
Rape: The untold traumatic effects
RAPE's traumatising effects came to the fore recently when a 12-year-old girl collapsed and immediately developed a mental problem after seeing her rapist. When the poor girl collapsed, she was at a p...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Melody Baya
Chinese, Indian and Pakistani male bosses randomly raped Chiadzwa women - MPs
Several Chinese, Indian and Pakistani male bosses at Chiadzwa's diamond mining firms allegedly raped female workers at will, parliement heard.The ex-workers raised the allegations in Par...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
One woman raped every 75 minutes in Zimbabwe
AT LEAST 21 women are raped daily in Zimbabwe, translating to one woman being sexually abused every 75 minutes, latest statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Office (ZimStat) have revealed. ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 12:18hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Hospital slammed for turning away raped girl
Cape Town - “Negligent” and “unbelievable” are how NGOs Mosaic and Childline describe the treatment a four-year-old rape victim received from Paarl Hospital last weekThe girl’s mothe...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean jailed 10 years for raping woman after handcuffing her
A young Zimbabwean rapist who handcuffed his victims before sexually violating them was on Tuesday slapped with a 10 year jail term and three strokes of the cane.The Voice reported that Xolani...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Rape suspects further detained
POLICE were yesterday granted permission to further detain nine rape and armed robbery suspects who allegedly wreaked havoc at Luveve High School and Cowdray Park suburb, gang raping women and stealin...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 05:17hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo/ Nqobile Tshili
'No bail for rape suspects'
A GROUP of women from Mpopoma suburb yesterday staged a demonstration at Bulawayo's Western Commonage Magistrates' Court protesting against the granting of bail to a rape suspect who allegedly held a ...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:33hrs | | by Melody Baya
Zimbabwe sex workers shun condoms
As the sun sets, the streets of Epworth, on the outskirts of Harare, roar into life with multitudes of people wandering up and down the narrow dusty road that leads to PaBooster-arguably the nucleus o...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 09:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
12 hour rapist jailed for 20 years
A MARRIED man from Madlambuzi who raped his girlfriend's younger sister for 12 hours has been slapped with a 20-year jail term. Smile Moyo, 26, a father of two, force-marched the woman, 20, fo...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 11:41hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
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