WATCH | A Guruve serial rapist, Anymore Zvitsva, has been sentenced to 89 years in prison by Harare Magistrate Francis Mapfumo after being convicted on 10 counts of rape, attempted murder, and robbery.
In delivering the sentence, Magistrate Mapfumo said the court had considered several mitigating and aggravating factors. The court noted that Zvitsva is 35 years old and has two children, aged 11 and 12, who currently live with their mother. The magistrate also took into account that the accused pleaded guilty to the charges, thereby saving the court’s time.
However, the court also considered that Zvitsva is not a first-time offender, having previously served a 48-month prison sentence in Guruve. Magistrate Mapfumo said the offender deliberately targeted vulnerable victims who had no one to assist them, showing that the crimes were carefully planned.
Zvitsva received the following sentences:
•Count 1: 20 years imprisonment
•Count 2: 7 years imprisonment
◦Counts 1 and 2 will run concurrently
•Count 3: 12 years imprisonment
•Count 4: 7 years imprisonment
•Count 5: 10 years imprisonment
◦Counts 4 and 5 will run concurrently
•Count 6: 7 years imprisonment
•Count 7: 20 years imprisonment
•Count 8: 7 years imprisonment
◦Counts 7 and 8 will run concurrently
•Count 9: 20 years imprisonment
•Count 10: 20 years imprisonment
◦Counts 9 and 10 will run concurrently
The First Lady, Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, was also present in court during Zvitsva’s sentencing.
Video and Reporting by Tanaka Fetinandi
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@ZiFMStereoNews@chashe Why would you sentence a mentally sick person to 89 years? He does not need jail time but psychiatric hospital Bulawayo Engutscheni No?
I think she is forgetting one important thing: he made her. Before him, there was no Sonya, we didn’t even know her or the lifestyle that came with it. If he made you, he can destroy you if you cross the line, to the extent of sending you and your mother into police custody. It’s a cruel world, but that’s how it is.
@sharonmufaro@MasweraSen99303 That's how SHE chose to do it. Her life her rules. You seem to just not like women speaking up for themselves. Yohwe. Let her be. Hapana mutemo waakatyora. Shes talking about her lived experience to whoever wants to hear. Stranger or not, doesn't change anything.
@MasweraSen99303 So why doesn’t she act like it. Why air your dirty laundry in public, to strangers on fb. She could have handled this so much better with all that knowledge, not social media 24/7
@loiceMututuvar1 Please go back and ask for the station commander. It is not rape it's indecent assault. Please keep escalating until a case is opened.
Question: if you are invited to someone’s house for dinner would you consider garden flowers in a jam jar like this an acceptable small gift? My host says don’t bring wine or food, I don’t like shop flowers, I can’t bear being empty handed…
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@CrimeWatchZW My observation of other people married to powerful Zim men/women is leave the house, kids, former life & country and start afresh. Ask Philip Chiyangwa ex-wife, Grace Mugabe ex, General ex, Bona ex.....Being alive is more important!
@PuseSkhao Shes not a kid anymore though. Shes a whole grown woman. And by now anymore choice she makes is informed. She will always be her father's daughter just as she's her bio mothers daughter.
One thing about step kids, they will shock you. Once you leave their dad, they will choose their dad. As they should maybe. Mpilo will forever choose her father if Thobile leaves. She chose her father over her own biological mother. #uthandonesthembu
Funny enough, if she had immediately pleaded guilty to helping that guy escape, 3 years would have been the max she spends in prison. So she'd be out now working on a tell all book and part two of the documentary.
This story of a Zimbabwean woman who was killed in an accident with her one year old child raises a few eyebrows. Apparently the husband was also killed by another accident on the same N1 highway earlier the same day. My overworked mind suspects that the family was looking for a huge RAF payment. Remember recently the Concourt ruled that foreign nationals are entitled to RAF payouts if involved in accidents within SA borders.