Soldier in court for raping maid

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By GETRUDE GUMEDE

Published: November 3, 2009

ZIMBABWE – BULAWAYO – A soldier based at Ngezi Barracks in Kwekwe appeared in court in Bulawayo yesterday facing a charge of raping his wife’s maid and was remanded out of custody on US$150 to 17 November.

Bhekinkosi Ncube, who indicated he is pleading not guilty to the charge, was not formally charged when he briefly appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate-in-charge, Cephas Masaka Sibanda.

In addition to bail, Ncube was ordered not to interfere with State witnesses and should reside at his workplace until the finalisation of his case.

The prosecutor-in-charge at the Regional Courts, Mr Patrobs Dube, told the court that on 28 September, at about 6pm, Ncube went to his wife’s residence at a block of flats in Bulawayo and found the complainant seated in the sitting room watching television.

They exchanged greetings before Ncube left for the bedroom and came back after a few minutes and sat next to the complainant putting his arm around her waist.

She stood up and he allegedly told her that he had come to see her and wanted to show her something in the bedroom.

The complainant, aged 18, refused to get into the bedroom and it is the State case that Ncube grabbed her by her hand and pulled her into the toilet.

He allegedly removed her skirt and other under garments leaving her only in a T-shirt.

The State will seek to prove that he pushed her to the ground and raped her. She screamed for help but no one heard the screams, the court heard.

Ncube did not use any protection and after the alleged act the complainant got up and went out of the toilet and was seen semi-naked by a security guard who was manning the premises.

The security guard had come to the premises to attend to a crying child who had been left behind by the complainant.

At 6am the following day, the complainant told Ncube’s wife about what had happened and the wife gave her US$6 so that she could go back to her rural home.

She went to Pumula where she related her ordeal to a certain woman who advised her to make a report to the police leading to Ncube’s arrest.-The Zimbabwe Telegraph