Ray Bande Senior Reporter
HARTZELL High School headmaster Shorwi Kawadza’s trial for sleeping with a minor and deliberately infecting her with an STI is scheduled commence today.
When the case was brought into public domain last year, Hartzell High senior teacher, William Mukwindidza, was named as the perpetrator of the abuse.
However, in an intriguing twist of events, Kawadza was arrested amid stunning revelations that the school head was the one who actually abused an orphaned minor and hatched a plan to defeat the course of justice by having Mukwindidza as the accused person.
It emerged that Mukwindidza was a victim of circumstances as Kawadza (57), working in cahoots with orphanage staffer, Cecilia Thobani (49), derailed investigations in a desperate effort to falsely have Mr Mukwindidza as the accused person.
The long-dragging case came into public domain after The Manica Post published the story of Mukwindidza being accused of sleeping with the minor and infecting the minor with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).
PID is one of the most serious complications of a sexually transmitted disease in women.
Given the seriousness of the matter and that it occurred early in the year, there was outrage as police investigations into the case appeared to be taking longer than expected in order for it to appear before the magistrate’s court.



