Ncube MDC legislator infected journalist with HIV

By Staff Reporter

An MP from the MDC led Welshman Ncube faces a double rap after a female journalist working for the state media accused him of deliberately infecting her with HIV and insulting her using text messages. According to the Zimbabwe Standard newspaper the legislator is from Matabeleland South.

The case was reported at Bulawayo Central Police Station on Saturday and the Initial Report number is 49941/11. The female journalist has already confirmed making a report to the police. The two were reportedly in a relationship from August 2009, though it was not clear when it ended.

It is the claim of the journalist that the MP did not reveal to her that his wife passed away due to HIV. To make matters worse insiders working for the MDC-N have also confirmed to the Standard newspaper that the same legislator also infected one of the female employees working for the party.

The journalist said at the onset of the relationship she had tested for the virus and her results were negative, but had later learnt that she had been infected after which she approached the MP but he refused to co-operate.

“I tried talking to him but he was evasive and would insult me using text messages,” the journalist said yesterday. She added that the MP had insulted her calling her a woman of loose morals, who was bitter because the relationship had ended.

Efforts to get a comment from the named legislator were fruitless as his mobile phone was off. However, it has been revealed that he accused the journalist of being a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and her aim being to tarnish his image.

Police spokesman Andrew Phiri said he had not got wind of the case, while his Bulawayo counterpart’s mobile phone was off for most of the day. The MDC-N currently has 7 MP’s in Parliament. Moses Mzila Ndlovu, Norman Mpofu, Nomalanga Khumalo, Siyabonga Ncube, Thandeko Mkhandla, Patrick Dube and Edward Mkhosi.

In March this year MP’s from the MDC-N queued up at a rally to attack Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over his personal life. This was after state media published allegations that he had fathered a child with a Bulawayo woman.

Moses Mzila Ndlovu, the party’s deputy secretary general and the MP for Bulilima West constituency accused Tsvangirai of “abusing rights” of women.

“We expected women’s rights groups such as WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise) to be outraged by the issue of abuse of rights by the Prime Minister, but their silence means they are simply in support of what is being done by Tsvangirai,” Mzila Ndlovu said at an MDC rally at Stanley Square in Bulawayo.

Ncube’s deputy, Edwin Mushoriwa, also laid into Tsvangirai, accusing him of abuse of office.

Mushoriwa claimed if the three main party leaders were to agree to a televised debate, Ncube would lay his vision for a prosperous Zimbabwe, President Mugabe reflect on his historical contribution to the country and Tsvangirai “will tell you that ‘I have impregnated this one and that one’ and nothing more”.

The party’s national chairman Goodrich Chimbaira also missed no opportunity, saying Tsvangirai’s reported liaisons with a string of women was a reversal of the campaign against the spread of HIV.

“His love escapades are now too much. He is not even ashamed,” claimed Chimbaira. “He is so shallow as to think that he cannot get Aids because he is Prime Minister. He does not even know that he can also contract the dreaded disease.”

It looks like people living in glass houses should not throw stones.