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A married man from Bulawayo went into a rage, assaulted and killed his girlfriend after she refused to answer a call from an unknown number.
Moses Remayi recently appeared before Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Evangelista Kabasa facing a murder charge.
He pleaded not guilty but was found guilty after a full trial. He was sentenced to an effective 18-year jail sentence. In his defence, Remayi claimed that his girlfriend’s reaction to an anonymous call had angered him.
“I was having a conversation with my girlfriend when her phone rang. I asked her who it was, and she claimed it was her brother, David Dlamini. She refused to answer and threw her phone on the floor.
“I dialled the number using my phone and a man answered. This made me angry, as I suspected she was cheating on me,” said Remayi.
He stated that this led to an argument between them.
“We started fighting and the deceased bit my hand and arm. She hit her head on the toilet door and the wall. When we went outside, I hit the deceased with a steel chair. She fell face down and injured her forehead, but I had no intention of killing her,” he said.
However, the court heard that on October 16, 2022, around 7pm, Remayi and the now-deceased had a disagreement that escalated into violence.
A co-tenant, Evidence Denhere, heard screams coming from the victim’s room and knocked on the door to intervene. She went to the window and pleaded with Remayi to stop assaulting the victim.
But he continued indicating that no one could stop him as he had locked the door.
Denhere sought help from other neighbours but to no avail. Remayi continued to assault the victim with his feet, fists and an iron bar for nearly an hour.
After a while, Remayi opened the door and left the victim outside. She was half-naked and bleeding profusely. One of the neighbours, Cynthia Chaleka, saw the victim, took a blanket from her house and covered her.
The victim was taken to the hospital for medical examination and died several days later as a result of the assault.
The matter was reported to the police and investigations led to the culprit’s arrest and the recovery of the iron bar. — B-Metro
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Barren aunt sets up 10-year-old niece for rape
A barren woman from Binga attempted to save her marriage by ‘pimping’ her sister’s 10-year-old daughter to her husband, which led to the man allegedly raping the child on several occasions.
The woman, who is facing charges of facilitating rape, recently appeared before Binga magistrate Victor Mpofu.
Her husband, who is facing rape charges, had gone into hiding and was yet to be arrested.
The woman was remanded in custody. She is expected to appear before a regional magistrate at Hwange Magistrates’ Court for the start of her trial later this month.
Allegations against the 49-year-old woman are that sometime in 2018, she took her sister’s 10-year-old daughter to her marital home in Gwanda.
The accused promised the child’s mother that she would pay for her schooling. In October 2018, the woman left her husband and her sister’s daughter staying in the same room and went to Binga for personal business.
The complainant never went to school.
Afterward, she questioned her aunt’s husband, who revealed that his wife had married her off to him so that she would bear children for him since her aunt was barren.
The man allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times from early October 2018 until the end of November of the same year.
When the victim’s aunt returned at the end of November, her husband continued to sexually assault the child at night, even in her presence.
The court heard that after each sexual encounter, the man would give the minor a red concoction to drink. At times, the man would threaten to kill her if she refused to have sex with him.
The complainant made several attempts to flee but was caught and beaten.
Eventually, the girl managed to escape and travelled to Binga, where upon arrival she informed her parents, who allegedly ignored the matter.
The girl then reported the ordeal to the police, leading to her aunt’s arrest. — Bulawayo Bureau
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Five family members stabbed to death
A 33-year-old man has been arrested for fatally stabbing five family members and injuring two others in the Bethany area of Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, on the night of October 12.
According to KZN police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda, the suspect and his uncle visited neighbours and, upon returning home, found his mother in the lounge with others.
Reports indicate that the suspect grabbed a knife from the couch and attacked his mother, who managed to escape outside.
The suspect went on a rampage without giving specific reasons for his action.
The violence escalated as he then turned on his uncle, who died in the hallway while trying to flee. Tragically, the suspect also stabbed and killed two young girls, aged two and six, along with a woman with a disability and an elderly visitor.
His mother and a four-year-old girl survived but sustained multiple stab wounds.
Netshiunda noted that the suspect’s sister successfully fled with her one-year-old baby.
The exact ages of the other victims are still being confirmed.
Preliminary investigations revealed that multiple domestic violence cases had previously been filed against the suspect, but all were later withdrawn.
Police apprehended the suspect just hours after the incident, following a swift operation led by the station commander. Officers quickly gathered intelligence to locate him.
The suspect is set to appear in the Bergville Magistrate’s Court, facing five counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. — Wires
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Boss sexually assaults employee, buys contraception pill for her
In a world rife with heinous crimes, young employees have become vulnerable targets for male employers who abuse their power to sexually exploit them.
Such was the case when a 32-year-old man from Nketa suburb in Bulawayo was arrested for sexually abusing his 20-year-old female employee.
Afraid that the victim might become pregnant after the abuse, the man bought her an emergency contraception pill, popularly known as the “morning after” pill.
For the alleged offence, Bright Munemo (32) appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga facing rape charges.
He was remanded in custody. The magistrate advised him to apply for bail at the High Court.
The court heard that on September 15, 2024, the accused and the victim were at their workplace. After completing an assigned task, the accused asked the victim to hug him and she complied.
The accused is alleged to have kissed the victim before making sexual advances towards her, which she rejected.
Munemo is also alleged to have locked the door and kissed the victim for the second time before drawing her closer to him.
He is alleged to have removed the victim’s clothes and raped her once.
After the alleged rape, the accused is said to have later brought morning-after pills for the victim and she took them.
The matter was reported to the police, leading to the arrest of the accused person. —B-Metro
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