3 women charged in series of sex attacks on men in Zimbabwe

Police in Zimbabwe on Friday charged three women found in possession of 33 condoms containing semen with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault in a case that may be a break in a string of sex attacks over the past two years by women targeting male hitchhikers.
Prosecutor Michael Reza told a court in Harare that the counts were for each of the 17 men who had positively identified the women as having sexually assaulted them in 2010 or 2011.
The women, all of them in their mid-20s, were arrested Sunday in Gweru, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Harare, when their car was involved in an accident. Police found the condoms in the women's car. Police appealed to any other victims to inform police.
The three were taken Wednesday by police to Harare.

"Since Monday, 17 men came and positively identified the women as having raped them," said a police official in Harare who refused to be identified. "Most of the men said the women would offer a drink either laced with something to tranquilize them or were forced at gunpoint."
Watch Ruparanganda, a professor of sociology at the University of Zimbabwe said : "Some sections of the society use these sperm for ritual purposes. The thinking is that it can be used for regeneration of life since they are source of life (biologically). Some people think that they can have their bad luck gone by using semen. I am sure that explains all this we have been witnessing (men being forced)."


The prosecution identified the suspects as Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and her sister, Netsai Nhokwara, 24.
They were to be held in custody until their next appearance, set for October 28, when more charges may be filed.
"We might have had more victims come identify these women," said the police source.

Zimbabwe vs Australia 4th Match Live Score, Feb 21

Watch Australia Vs Zimbabwe Live Stream At Ahmedabad ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Online Broadcast Pc Tv here. The fourth match of the World Cup will be played between Australia and Zimbabwe. The game will be played on February 21 at Motera in Ahmedabad and will see the Aussies try to overcome their poor form in the warm-ups to get a move on.

On the other hand, Zimbabwe had even poorer form in the practice games but they will know that they need a miracle to win games in the World Cup. Against a side which has beaten them 25 times, Zimbabwe will struggle.

Australia will need to stall their batting collapses. They had a good time back in England but in India where the tracks turn and make life that much more difficult for those coming from the hard bouncy wickets, the Zimbabwean spinners could come handy.

Ireland beats Zimbabwe by 4 wickets in warm-up match at Nagpur.

For both teams it was the last chance for the preparations of world cup. The century of Chigumbura gets no benefit.

Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first. Brendan Taylor and Charles Coventry opened the innings. Johnston got the early wicket by taking Taylor with the help of Wilson, he scored one run. Coventry went back after scoring 5. Wilson took his catch behind the wickets on the ball of Rankin. SC Williams became the second wicket for Johnston, he scored just 3 runs. At this time Zimbabwe’s total was 12/3. Tatenda Taibu and Craig Ervine played sensibly and scored 62 runs in the fourth wicket partnership. Ervine got run out after scoring 27 runs. Next, captain Chigumbura and Taibu played responsibly brings their total to 100, at this time the resistance of Taibu ended and he went back after scoring 45 runs.

Prosper Utseya became the sixth wicket of Irish bowlers, who went back after scoring 26 runs White took his catch on the ball of Botha. Hamilton Masakadza can just score 1 run. Chigumbura continued to play aggressively and completed his century. At the end of specified number of overs Zimbabwe’s score was 244/8. Chigumbura was unbeatable on 103 while Creamer on 1. Johnston and Botha took 2, 2 wickets.

Start of Irish side was not good too Masakadza got Paul Stirling in the first over of the innings. Niall O’Brien went back after scoring 15 runs. After losing two wickets, Alex Cusack and Andre Botha played slow and sensible cricket. After scoring 47 runs, Cusack bowled out by Creamer. Andrew White went back to pavilion after scoring 19. He cannot play in swinging ball of Williams and got clean bold. Botha played excellently and added 79 precious runs to his team’s total. Kevin O’Brien and John Mooney took their team to the victory. At the end both were not out on 62 and 5 runs respectively.