{"id":201835,"date":"2025-07-07T02:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mai-jeremaya-rape-suspects-found-not-guilty-magistrate-says-socialites-evidence-inconsistent-and-unstatisfactory\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T02:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:08:57","slug":"zimbabwe-mai-jeremaya-rape-suspects-found-not-guilty-magistrate-says-socialites-evidence-inconsistent-and-unstatisfactory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mai-jeremaya-rape-suspects-found-not-guilty-magistrate-says-socialites-evidence-inconsistent-and-unstatisfactory\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mai Jeremaya Rape Suspects Found Not Guilty, Magistrate Says Socialite&#8217;s Evidence &#8216;Inconsistent and Unstatisfactory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi has acquitted two Harare men Thabo Dube and Martin Charlie who were accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke better known as Mai Jeremaya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The magistrate said the State&#8217;s case was too weak for a reasonable court to convict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;From a clear analysis, the complainant&#8217;s evidence is unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;I conclude so because in the present case, both accused gave their own explanation, which was not rebutted by the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;Inconsistencies fly in the face of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040417.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>Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi has acquitted two Harare men Thabo Dube and Martin Charlie who were accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke better known as Mai Jeremaya. The magistrate said the State&#8217;s case was too weak for a reasonable court to convict. &#8220;From a clear analysis, the complainant&#8217;s evidence is unsatisfactory. &#8220;I conclude so because [&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":[258,256,7013,11061,28832,51812,17492,19593,257,305,51813,254,4360,51814,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-evidence","tag-guilty","tag-inconsistent","tag-jeremaya","tag-magistrate","tag-mai","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-socialites","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-unstatisfactory","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201835","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=201835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201835\/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=201835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}