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Fairness Moyana in Hwange
IN a shocking courtroom twist that has rocked Binga to its core, a 29-year-old woman has been thrown behind bars for fabricating a rape charge against her police officer boyfriend, a lie that almost sent an innocent man to jail!
Bvumai Betty Muserere, of house number 917 in Binga’s medium-density suburb, was slapped with a 9-month prison sentence by Hwange Provincial Magistrate, Fungai Dzimiri. Three months were conditionally suspended, leaving her with six months of hard time for defeating or obstructing the course of justice.
Dressed in a plain brown dress and clearly shaken, Muserere stood before the court and dropped the confession, she had lied.
“I was never raped,” she reportedly said, her voice trembling with guilt as her world came crashing down.
Her victim is Constable Admire Moyo, a serving ZRP office and her boyfriend.
The drama started on 28 March 2025, when Muserere stormed into ZRP Hwange, claiming Moyo had raped her. A case was opened. The wheels of justice started turning. But on 11 April, while under oath, she stunned the courtroom by confessing that she had made it all up.
Gasps filled the room as she took back every word of her earlier statement, effectively torpedoing the prosecution’s case and throwing the justice system into chaos.
Prosecutor Brenda Ndlovu said Muserere’s falsehood wasted police time and resources, misled the court and derailed genuine justice.
“This was a serious abuse of the system,” the court heard.
Legal minds weighed in, saying while it’s critical to support real rape survivors, false claims like this are a devastating blow to justice and set back the fight against gender-based violence.
“Every lie like this, hands power back to abusers and silences real victims,” said a local women’s rights activist.
The court didn’t get a full answer. But whispers around town suggest it stemmed from a bitter lovers’ fallout.
“She got emotional and went too far. Now she’s paying the price,” said a court observer.
Outside the courthouse, the mood was torn.
Some sympathised. “She’s troubled. Maybe she just snapped,” said MaKhumalo, a neighbour from Binga.
Others were furious.
“She set back the cause for all women. That lie could’ve destroyed that man,” fumed a gender justice advocate.
Now caged for six months, Muserere’s story is a tragic cautionary tale, one of love gone wrong, lies with legal bite, and a justice system that doesn’t play games when it comes to the truth.
Mathew Masinge