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HE was branded a predator, dragged to court and nearly buried under a scandal.
However, Soul Dube (31) is now the face of vindication after a rape charge against him collapsed like dominoes.
The Tererini village man was accused of raping his 13-year-old sister-in-law in 2019.
In the end, when the dust settled at the Tredgold Magistrates’ Court, Magistrate Sibonginkosi Mnkandla threw out the charge.
After listening to the evidence, she ruled it was all bark and no bite and declared Dube not guilty.
The alleged incident only came to light in December 2024, when the now-teenage complainant told her aunt Edna
Sibanda that she had been assaulted while escorting her sister’s mother-in-law.
Prosecutor Nomthandazo Mafu, claimed that Dube had pulled the girl into the bushes, threatened her and had his way with her. But in court, the story unraveled like a cheap weave in the rain.
Details were fuzzy, the timeline was wobbly, and the case lacked the punch to convict.
“I’ve waited years for this moment. I didn’t touch that girl,” Dube reportedly said outside court, wiping tears and sweat in equal measure.
Now cleared, he returns to his community with his name finally washed.
Peter Tanyanyiwa