Living in Zim means being in survival mode all the time, but you never truly realise how deep you are in survival mode until you leave that country and realise that there's nothing normal in Zimbabwe. Not a single thing.
By pardoning Maria Makendenge, the judiciary has put every boy and man at risk of rape. We reject a law that punishes only male offenders while women go free for the same crimes. Maria Makendenge is a rapist. She must be imprisoned.
I don't understand how Nyasha Dube was sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a female university student while a Murewa woman whose face and name had to be hidden from the public to protect her identity, was sentenced to 26 months in prison for raping a 14-year-old boy.