Sydney Sibanda
(22) from Insuza in Matabeleland North Province appeared before Bulawayo
magistrate Collet Ncube facing a criminal insult charge and pleaded not guilty.
Sibanda was
remanded in custody to 8 February for commencement of trial. He was also
advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
It is alleged
that on 26 November last year a 15-year-old girl dismissed from school, while
she was on her way home she realised that she had left her lunch box at school
and that forced her to return to the school to fetch it. She met Sibanda who
was wielding an axe and reportedly accused her of spreading rumours that he is
a rapist. He ordered her to remove her clothes but she refused.
The court heard
Sibanda slapped her on the face and threatened to chop her into pieces.
Gripped with
fear, the girl stripped naked, and Sibanda forced her to twerk and gyrate
before him.
The court heard
that during the sickening act, Sibanda heard voices of people approaching the
scene and he fled.
Shortly, some
villagers arrived at the scene and found her in the process of wearing her
school uniform. She narrated her ordeal to them before she reported the
incident to the police leading to Sibanda’s arrest. B Metro
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