Burning foetus model’s court fate: Gender Minister blasts beauty industry
11 November 2012
Spread the love

ZIMBABWE’s Deputy Minister for Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development and MP for Harare West, Jessie Majome, has expressed concern at some of the modeling industry practices. This follows police investigations on a 25-year-old beauty queen, Gamuchirai Maziva, once described by a judge as a “woman of substance”, but now placed on a hanging career as she faces a criminal charge. The allegations before the court are that she allegedly aborted her child and burnt the foetus. If found guilty by the courts, such a crime could potentially attract an 18th month jail term.
Minister Majome’s comments emerged after the internet became blazed with the beauty queen news just as prosecutors hinted that she could be jailed way before the upcoming finals of the Face of Zimbabwe. On the same prong, organisers of the function have also reported the resignation of Maziva from the contest. Together with her boyfriend, an alleged accomplice, they have both been granted $100 bail as witnesses prepare their evidence linked to the pending court case.
As social networks were awash over the weekend on the matter, Minister Majome took a side to blast the ethics of the beauty and modelling industry:

“It spoils the sexuality of women, and puts women under pressure to look in a particular way, and act in a particular way, so that it’s actually saying to young women, that you know what, because of economic desperation…the most important asset to you is your body and how you look, you must look attractive to me. So you will find young women like her are under tremendous pressure because that’s the only thing that she can actually trade in order to survive….so that’s a problem in itself. Young women should not have to sell their bodies in order [to survive]…
“And then secondly our abortion laws, the Termination of pregnancy Act in Zimbabwe provides that it is lawful to terminate a pregnancy only in two circumstances, one if the pregnancy has been conceived as a result of unlawful sexual intercourse such as incest or rape, you can obtain a certificate from a magistrate, but the reality is different sometimes even from my experience as a lawyer I remember I was involved in two cases where I had to really fight tooth and nail to get a rape survivor to get an abortion … there are attitudes that are very anti abortion sometimes.
“And then secondly you can also get a lawful abortion if your pregnancy exposes you to risk, physical health risk, and there are no other grounds, and the reality is sadly a lot of women are caught outside that; women who conceive but they conceive in manners where they are incapable for one reason or the other because of their lifestyle they are unable to carry through the pregnancy and bear children, and they end up having very unsafe abortions,” Minister Majome said.
Minister Majome was speaking on the sidelines of a London meeting of the student alumni of Ellis Robins, Mabelreign Girls High school as she sought to engage former students and other interested stakeholders to spearhead practical means and ways to rescue the deteriorating conditions at the said schools.
Commentary: Zimbabwe has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates in the world. More women die due to pregnancy complications and related issues. In that shocking mortality rate, abortions claim the biggest toll. With inhibiting conditions like being denied the capacity to pursue further studies if one gets pregnant, inability to contest in beauty pageants or fear of obtaining maternal leave soon after getting powerful jobs, women are treated as second citizens in their country of birth. It is also disturbing that once a woman becomes pregnant, society tends to disown them if there was no wedding or marital formalities and she is left out in the quay to sort out her mess. Many take women’s issues for granted but what the feminine gender goes through is a painful and humiliating solitary experience. It’s about time the legislature took a second look at the plight of women in their daily functions and efforts to survive and match the performance of men in business and social life categories, minister Majome argues. Be that as it may, the efforts made to date to curtail domestic violence is sincerely applauded – Editors

14 Replies to “Burning foetus model’s court fate: Gender Minister blasts beauty industry”

  1. HAHAHHAHAHAHA MUJAMBADOTO ITS ME WANGU NDAGARA NDIRIPO SATAN MUTUPO WA BABA HANGED BY WHO YOUR TRIBESMAN HAHAHAHA THAT DAY A FIG TREE WILL GROW LOAVES OF BREAD KEEP ON DREAMING AND THINKING MAYBE YOU CAN HARM ME AND LET ALONE YOUR FALLEN ZONGORORO HEROES WILL WAKE UP AND ENSURE THAT ZAMBEZI WATER REACHES MADHAKWAZI LAND VILLAGE IDIOT WAS YOUR LATE BAY0NETED GRANDFATHER’S SKOOKIAN JOINT NICKNAME HE IS IN A MINE SHAFT SOMEWHERE ANY WAY WERE ARE THE HUMANOID FISH BONES IN MATLAN THAT I TOLD YOU HAVE MONEY GIVEN THE DEMAND IN CHINA

  2. She also needs to advise her boss not to be attracted to those kind of people who are like Mazivisa.

  3. I hope the editor is not having second thought about this village idiot calling himself PERANZI MUZVINAGUKURAHUNDI whatever that means. It is meaningless and effectless just like a thin Greydog. If it is meant to offend then it failed because the name and what is penned is all in meaningless satanic wording. Like what the Chief commander says we will catch you and you will shed more light into your shadowy activities. Tragedy will be seen to be running in the blood when we hang you.

  4. Mhuri yeZimbabwe ndabiwa nenhomba yekuda kusvirwa ndiri kutsvaga angandirove nyoro. Zvekamudhara kangu ndazvitadza ini ndoitawo sei? Ndaingoda mari chete ndichifunga kuti kuda zvimwe Robert kachafa before 2005 manje aaah nemoyo wekamba. Wakakadya hakafi chinhu but mubedroom hapana. Ndotozoita kekusumudza after 2 minutes kakupupira furo. Veduwe varume vasvinu kunze uko ini ndada hangu kuroohwa nekumagaro. Kana kutofendeswa chaiko ndirikuda hanngu ndibatsirei. Kana uchida unouya kupurazi kwaGushungo woti ndoda basa rekutsvaira yard yaMai Mugabe ndokuti ndizive chinangwa chaunenge wafambira. Tinobva tangopinda mumba wondirova nyoro. Hazvingakukwidzewo zenze here kuti watinha mai vanyika. Inga governor vaindirova nayo masikati machena wani zvino vamwe varume murikutyeiko chokwadi. Ndofa hangu ini nezemo.

Comments are closed.