By Confidente Reporter
TWO young Namibian women pursuing studies in Zimbabwe were reportedly kidnapped and assaulted by three Bulawayo women over allegations of bedding one of their husbands, Confidente has learnt.
Zimbabwe authorities confirmed the matter saying investigations are underway. The incident was also reported in a daily newspaper, The Chronicle.
According to the Chronicle, the trio recorded a video of the incident on March 24 that has since gone viral on social media networks. In the video one of the women is heard telling one of the visibly shaken girls to bend over so that she could spank her buttocks.
“Face that side, stand up and face that side. I want to beat you on the buttocks that they f*** you. You think you’re clever, where’s Nancy, who do you think you are? You sleep with my husband and you think you’re clever?” one of the women is heard saying.
It is further reported that the three women allegedly tricked the pair telling them that someone had sent them cosmetics which they should collect.
This was reportedly after one of the women Tapiwa Chiwundona stumbled on a text message from one of the girls on her husband’s mobile phone.
Sources privy to the matter told the newspaper that the two girls met the women in the city centre and were told that the cosmetics were at a house in Famona, Bulawayo.
“They (three women) drove them to Famona where they stripped the two before giving them a hiding using rubber slippers on their buttocks,” a source was quoted as saying.
After the assault, the women reportedly took the girls to Centenary Park and told them to soil their clothes in mud before letting them go. The girls had however not reported the matter to police until their video went viral.
One of the girls narrated how the trio tricked them to Famona where they were forced to strip naked before being assaulted.
“We took them to the police station. They kidnapped us and beat us up as shown in the video. They forced us to undress apparently over a friend of ours called Makho,” one of the girls said.
She described the incident a traumatic experience and brutality she suffered in a foreign country.
Efforts to get comment from the Namibian Embassy in Zimbabwe proved futile at the time of going to print.