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Zimbabwe Raises Age Of Consent To 18 Years

1 year agoFri, 12 Jan 2024 13:42:19 GMT

Zimbabwe Raises Age Of Consent To 18 Years

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has invoked the Presidential Powers Act to amend the Criminal Law Code and reinstate the age of consent to eighteen (18) years.

The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts.

It is the minimum age at which a person is considered old enough to be able to legally agree to sexual activity.

In 2022, sections of Criminal Law on sexual crimes were ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.

These were sections that described “young people”, for the purposes of sexual consent, as only a boy or girl under 16.

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The court suspended the ruling for 12 months to give Parliament time to draft a better law. However, the 12 months expired on 24 May 2023 before this was done.

As a result, a legal loophole was created that allowed paedophiles to get off scot-free. This loophole has now been closed.

Statutory Instrument 2 of 2024 (Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Criminal Laws (Protection of Children and Young Persons) Regulations, 2024) has criminalised having sexual intercourse with anyone below the age of 18. Offenders face up to 10 years imprisonment.

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35 Comments

Mkayz · 1 year ago

That's good news

Vuzi party · 1 year ago

Vuzi party after Vuzi Party. Uchanzwa mu court under 18 ichi defender dhara rayo ichiti-Ndini ndaka munyebera kuti L am 18

MELO HAYES · 1 year ago

😂

muda mabbie · 1 year ago

i hev no coment

skun · 1 year ago

bvepfepfe abva arambwa nekoso rake😂😂😂

Big Boy · 1 year ago

I fully support this law, grown men should not sleep with children, it is wrong on so many levels

@ · 1 year ago

Ko ma under 18 oga oga akaitana, mutemo unotii. Tiudzeiwo vano ziva.

shumbandonda · 1 year ago

vanongo****rna pachabo vana vedu ava kutanga ma grsde 7 vanenga batova nema chinda avo its only vanenga vango reva chete otherwise zvinhu zvirikurohwa

citizen · 1 year ago

The Lobhengula story makes me hate shonas even more and i will never be patriotic about zimbabwe the rest of my life. Yes, i said it...!

☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ · 1 year ago

bambo mukuto zvinetsawo henyu imi kana maguta zvemuno go back to South Africa.

Ngavadzokere avo · 1 year ago

They came here with nothing but dangling balls nezvimapfumo zvavakabira Tshaka, they took our wives, they took our girlfriends too kuti vatange breeding yavo that never bored sensible people Hezvo vakutengesa nyika vakurwisa mmmadzisekuru dzindza ravo rekwamai

Bhomora Zvekuti · 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣 Zviri bho hazvo vasikana ngava dzidze kumirira marriage

There is nothing wrong with that · 1 year ago

Just that people will stop going to Tinashe Mugabe for DNA tests because there you see too many young girls at 16

Tina · 1 year ago

Vasikana vanokasira ku ibva vakomana vanonoka, the government is right, regai dzive shiri mazai hana muto, vana vadiki varikufa nemimba

Tina · 1 year ago

Vasikana vanokasira ku ibva vakomana vanonoka, the government is right, regai dzive shiri mazai hana muto, vana vadiki varikufa nemimba

Velasquez · 1 year ago

10 yrs dzishoma koz munhu wacho anobvisirwa necourt jeri robvisa futi atleast dai ati 20yrs

Campbello · 1 year ago

ma1 ka aya

fugu pfeee · 1 year ago

chero zvikachiitwa hazvo inini bhoo. ndakato dashura ka 16 yrs nezuro. zvangu zvakaita

Aj · 1 year ago

🤣wakaita ku bvumburudza

🚩 · 1 year ago

Consent is done behind closed doors, who will police what is behind closed doors. The govt should not interfere too much on the social life of our people. Is there any complaint about the consent issues? Mind you the law is not justice.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Its like bottle drinking Chief... you can drink at a bottle store for 2 years without any brush with police or managing to evade arrest here and there, but one bad day you may get caught unawares and get arrested, coz public drinking is against the law... Same with deciding to enjoy **** with an under 18 loose girl or **** addict. DONT GET CAUGHT! COZ THIS IS NOT PUBLIC DRINKING! THE CONSEQUENSES ARE DIRE!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Kkkkkkk, ko nhai Pindula kuti six kuchiri kunyadziisira mukore uno? Haa munondisparka 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Big Boy · 1 year ago

Iwe mupfana wekausername kekaflag ukwane wanzwa, saka ipapa ukuda zvekutorara nepwere kaa iwe. Utikwanire, zipaedophile remunhu

Andrewww · 1 year ago

As the Ndebele,we agree that Lobhengula sold the country for 1 KG of sugar.As Ndebeles,we are sugar addicts.Sugar us like Coaine to us Ndebeles.

wena Andrew · 1 year ago

ulishona

zululizayo · 1 year ago

maShona vana vema**** Saka Mbuya Nehanda vakapa Lobengula STI but we Ndebeles choose not to write home about it because it is history.

mthwakazi kamahlabezulu · 1 year ago

and gave some of the sugar to his small house Mbuya Nehanda who infected him with an STI and the hatred between the Shona's and Ndebeles began😂😂😂

zulukandaba · 1 year ago

your inferiority complex makes you xenophobic of the proud Ndebele people .

xakathwayo · 1 year ago

oral history teaches us that Mbuya Nehanda was Lobengula's girlfriend and that had Mbuya Nehanda not infected Lobengula with an STI the two could have married. so you Shona's why are you fighting Ndebeles when your ancestors once got their things coupled?

xukuxwayo · 1 year ago

Yes yes King Lobhengula loved Sugar and Mbuya Nehanda with her team came from Tanganyika looking for Salt, which in fact was Sex. Alas they Found sugar daddy and the hatred between the two tribes began when Sugar daddy was given S T I by the salt lover bae