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Zhombe gold dealer rapes own daughter hundreds of times for rituals
For a year, and at least twice a day, 36-year-old Stanford Chitima (not his real name) of Zhombe under Chief Ntabeni, slept with his first born daughter, a 16-year-old juvenile, so that he fulfilled an awkward ritual he had entered with an unnamed witch doctor. According to him, this ritual would have helped him make huge sums of money at…
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Person who arranged Memory Machaya’s marriage exposed
14-year-old Memory Machaya, who died a month ago while giving birth at an apostolic sect’s shrine in Manicaland, was forced to drop out from school by her aunt who then married her off, it has been established. Memory’s maternal aunt, Alice Mabika, said her niece was taken from her parents by her paternal aunt who is married to one of…
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55 children and 6 wives… Chitungwiza grandpa (73) still wants more
CHITUNGWIZA-based traditional healer Amos Kafera, aged 73, is proud of his 55 children and six wives saying he takes good care of all of them such that none of them has ever begged for food from neighbours. He his huge family is a sign of virility, and says he is always working hard to feed and educate every member of…
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