{"id":101819,"date":"2024-12-12T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves"},"modified":"2024-12-13T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:45:43","slug":"zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves","title":{"rendered":"ZUPCO Employee Allegedly Rapes Job Seeker, Marries Her, Then Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) employee, Amon Manjengwa, allegedly lured a woman seeking employment into his office at the company\u2019s depot in Belvedere, Harare, where he raped her. Following the incident, the two lived together as a couple for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The situation took a turn last month when Manjengwa, 44, ended the relationship and married another woman. This prompted the 22-year-old victim to report the rape to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim alleged that she had gone to the ZUPCO Belvedere Depot in December 2023 to apply for a job as a bus conductor.<\/p>\n<p>Manjengwa allegedly raped her and assured her that he would marry her and assist her in securing the job.<\/p>\n<p>After living together for a year, the victim was left devastated when Manjengwa married someone else. This led her to report the alleged rape to the police. Manjengwa was arrested on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Luckmore Chakanza, spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Harare Province, confirmed the case to H-Metro. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Circumstances are that sometime in December 2023, the complainant went to drop off her Curriculum Vitae at ZUPCO, wishing to apply for a job as a conductor.<\/p>\n<p>The accused person approached the complainant and told her that he could help her get employed.<\/p>\n<p>The accused person asked the complainant to follow him into his office and she agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst in the office, the accused person locked the door and instructed the complainant to give him her National Identification Card.<\/p>\n<p>The accused person told the complainant that he wanted to have sexual intercourse with her first but she refused.<\/p>\n<p>The accused person then pushed the complainant to the floor and raped her once without protection.<\/p>\n<p>After the act, the accused person begged the complainant not to report the matter and promised to marry her.<\/p>\n<p>They stayed together as husband and wife until November this year when the accused person dumped the complainant and married another wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) employee, Amon Manjengwa, allegedly lured a woman seeking employment into his office at the company\u2019s depot in Belvedere, Harare, where he raped her. Following the incident, the two lived together as a couple for a year. The situation took a turn last month when Manjengwa, 44, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":101818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[3580,19],"class_list":["post-101819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-rape","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ZUPCO Employee Allegedly Rapes Job Seeker, Marries Her, Then Leaves - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) employee, Amon Manjengwa, allegedly lured a woman seeking employment into hi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZUPCO Employee Allegedly Rapes Job Seeker, Marries Her, Then Leaves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) employee, Amon Manjengwa, allegedly lured a woman seeking employment into hi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-12T20:38:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-12T22:45:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/12\/sm_1734030925.963148.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ZUPCO Employee Allegedly Rapes Job Seeker, Marries Her, Then Leaves\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-12T20:38:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-12T22:45:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\"},\"wordCount\":341,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/12\/sm_1734030925.963148.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Rape\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-employee-allegedly-rapes-job-seeker-marries-her-then-leaves\",\"name\":\"ZUPCO Employee Allegedly Rapes Job Seeker, Marries Her, Then Leaves - 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