{"id":228924,"date":"2026-03-29T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-woman-accused-of-trafficking-victim-into-rape-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:08:59","slug":"zimbabwe-woman-accused-of-trafficking-victim-into-rape-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-woman-accused-of-trafficking-victim-into-rape-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Woman Accused of Trafficking Victim Into Rape Ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A 37-year-old Zimbabwean woman based in Namibia appeared in court after allegedly orchestrating a human trafficking scheme under the guise of a job opportunity which led to the sexual assault of a fellow Zimbabwean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Chido Kagoro appeared before Harare magistrate Jesse Kufa facing charges of contravening the Trafficking in Persons Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">She was granted US$200 bail, and the matter was remanded to 7 April. Kagoro was represented by Moffat Makuvatsine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270186.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 37-year-old Zimbabwean woman based in Namibia appeared in court after allegedly orchestrating a human trafficking scheme under the guise of a job opportunity which led to the sexual assault of a fellow Zimbabwean. Chido Kagoro appeared before Harare magistrate Jesse Kufa facing charges of contravening the Trafficking in Persons Act. She was granted US$200 [&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":[7083,258,256,257,15112,305,254,6615,7179,4307,4686,421],"class_list":["post-228924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-ordeal","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-victim","tag-woman","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228924","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=228924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228924\/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=228924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}