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Yeukai Karengezeka
Court Correspondent
CCC Member of Parliament for Glen View North, Happymore Chidziva, appeared in court yesterday charged with raping a 17-year-old girl.
Chidziva was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa.
He was remanded in custody to 8 October and was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
Prosecutor Mr Lancelot Mutsokoti alleged Chidziva raped the girl three times between April and August this year.
On the first count, Chidziva is accused of forcing the girl into intimacy without protection at a Harare hotel, before giving her US$25.
In July, he allegedly booked a room at a guest-house in Waterfalls suburb and raped her again. The third incident occurred on August 9.
The girl eventually disclosed what had happened after receiving a threatening call from a private number.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter