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B-Metro Reporter
Hey, kanti why ungiposta uyangazi mina? Bazakuthola sulengile sufile ****kusasa.” (Hay, why are you posting about me? They will find you hanging, dead tomorrow.)
This was a chilling post on a WhatsApp group that took Bulawayo socialites and businessmen by surprise this week.
The post was followed by another threat; “Dead in 24 hours, count on it, look over your shoulders”.
These chilling threats were among many posts in a newly created WhatsApp group named “Byo men exposed”.
According to sources, the group was created for Bulawayo women to “share notes” on cheating men in the City of Kings and Queens.
So busy was the platform that messages were circulating among hordes of people on Tuesday, with a number of married women being alerted to the group. The group has rules, and members were encouraged to share pictures of their lovers, married and unmarried, so that anyone who also has an affair with those men would come out in the open.
“We are not talking about small boys. The group exposes big boys in town who rent flats, full houses and town houses for their girlfriends. So what happens is that someone would post a picture of their boyfriend or husband, then people will comment and confess to having slept with that man or reveal which other women have gone out with him or are in a relationship with him. It’s just crazy, but then you realise no one is safe. These socialites or so called slay queens are simply sharing men in town,” said one member of the group.
In one voice note in the group, a married woman recorded her conversation with her husband when she was questioning him on why his picture was posted in the group.
“Guys I just got home and there is now a fight with madam. She says I was posted in a group of cheats in town. She says her friend made a screen shot of the comments and sent to her,” one man is heard on a voice note.
He then tells his wife that the person who sent the screen shots had bad intentions and was not a good friend, pleading his innocence, adding, “maybe your friend likes me”.
“Bayaphuma bonke omainini. Mina ngizihlalele endlini, angidingi lutho. (We will get to know about all the small houses. I’m just at home, and I’m not sniffing for anything you do out there). When my friend asked if I knew anything about this new group, I got a feeling that you (husband) are being discussed there. You have been exposed. I couldn’t wait for you to come home so that I ask you about this,” one woman is heard on the voice note talking to her husband who was apparently posted as a love rate in the group.
In order to ensure “privacy”, the pictures posted in the group had the “view once” application, so that members of the group do not share the pictures to other people. However, this publication got a glimpse of some of the pictures that exposed a number of socialites and businessmen in the city.
In another development, another WhatsApp group, “Byo Women Exposed” was created, to counter the other group. The group operates in similar fashion, with men posting pictures of women and “anyone with details and V11s (evidence)” of having slept with a particular woman or with knowledge of other men who slept with her can come forward and join the conversation. However, police have warned administrators of such platforms that they risk arrest if members break the law and engage in crimes like cyberbullying.
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