{"id":201787,"date":"2025-07-06T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-socialite-mai-jeremayas-rape-case-collapses-in-court\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:08:15","slug":"zimbabwe-socialite-mai-jeremayas-rape-case-collapses-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-socialite-mai-jeremayas-rape-case-collapses-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Socialite Mai Jeremaya&#8217;s Rape Case Collapses in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A Harare magistrate has acquitted two men who were accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke, who is popularly known as Mai Jeremaya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In her ruling, Magistrate Letwin Rwodzi said the State has failed to prove its case. She said the complainant, Mai Jeremaya, was inconsistent in her testimony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The magistrate said Mai Jeremaya&#8217;s report did not meet the requirements for admissibility as a rape report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">She stated that Mai Jeremaya initially informed her friend Cynthia about the alleged sexual&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040510.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harare magistrate has acquitted two men who were accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke, who is popularly known as Mai Jeremaya. In her ruling, Magistrate Letwin Rwodzi said the State has failed to prove its case. She said the complainant, Mai Jeremaya, was inconsistent in her testimony. The magistrate said Mai Jeremaya&#8217;s report did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6683,11333,6185,51806,19593,257,305,11139,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-collapses","tag-court","tag-jeremayas","tag-mai","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-socialite","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}