Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) manager and radio announcer Simon Pashoma Ncube on Tuesday appeared at the Chivhu Magistrates’ Court charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at Frontline Hotel in November last year.
The 56-year-old Ncube had his bail application denied by resident magistrate Archie Wochiunga and will remain in custody. He is being charged with one count of rape or alternatively having sexual intercourse with a minor.
It is the state case that Ncube in the company of a workmate identified as Clifford Makonese, made advances to the girl at Nharira business centre before taking her to the Frontline Hotel where they proceeded to a room they had booked.
It is alleged when Ncube and the girl entered the room, Makonese locked the door from outside and disappeared with the keys. Ncube then tore the girl’s skirt and panties and raped her once. He raped her twice again during the same night.
Makonese who had disappeared with the keys only showed up the next morning when Ncube had contacted him via mobile phone. The girl later fingered Ncube after being quizzed by her uncle and mother over where she had spent the night.
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