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A trio of Zimbabwean women who were accused of raping male hitch-hikers in order to harvest their sperm have been cleared.
According to local media reports, a handful of hitch-hikers claimed they had been drugged, threatened with knives and even live snakes before they were forced into sex and then dumped by the roadside. The sperm was apparently being collected for use in “ju-ju” rituals.
The women, sisters Sophie Nhokwara (26), Netsai Nhokwara (24) and Rosemary Chakwizira (28), were exonerated by DNA evidence, AFP reported .
Their lawyer Dumisani Mthombeni said: “The state has withdrawn the charges. The police arrested the wrong people.”
In November, the sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged with attacking male hitchhikers and harvesting their sperm for rituals, Today Online reported.
The Nhokwara sisters were arrested after they were involved in a car accident and police found 30 used condoms in their car boot.
They faced 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault in a country where a woman raping a man is not considered a criminal offence.
The trio apparently told a Harare court they are merely hard-working prostitutes.
Mthombeni said the state was prosecuting Netsai Nhokwara and Rosemary Chakwizira on lesser charges of “loitering for the purposes of prostitution.”
He added that his clients were planning to sue the police for their “unlawful” arrests and for parading them on national TV as “female rapists”.
In March, one female motorist told AFP how she had recently pulled over to pick up a group of male hitchhikers who refused to get into her car for fear of being raped.
Susan Dhliwayo, 19, said: “Now men fear women. They said: ‘We can’t go with you because we don’t trust you’.”
National police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told Zimbabwe Times Live there was not yet an exact number of confirmed cases, but warned male travellers to be vigilant.

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Male hitchhikers in Zimbabwe are wary of being picked up for fear of being raped by female attackers who look towards harvesting their sperm for suspected ritual purposes, the AFP reported.
Local authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the spate of sexual assaults on men which the attackers believe will bring good luck. According to the report, naïve travelers are picked up by gangs of beautiful women and are drugged and forced to have sex and later dumped on the freeways. Some of the attackers are armed, using guns, knives and, in one instance, a live snake was used to overpower victims, before collecting their semen in condoms.
The news service added that such incidents have been on the rise since 2009, but so far only three women were arrested after police found a stash of knotted condoms in October 2011. However, due to unavailability of DNA evidence and with Zimbabwean law yet to recognize female rapists, the trial was postponed.
In the same year, several prostitutes in the country were found selling their clients' semen. According to the website African Spotlight, each sperm-filled condom sells for about US$400.
To Zimbabwean local Tende Marahu, the incidents come as no surprise. It started a long time back, he was quoted as saying to AFP. To me, I didn't get shocked because I already knew it was happening.
Many suspect that the exact purpose of forcibly collecting semen is meant for business purposes or even Juju, a form of African witchcraft. According to the report, attackers refrain from collecting semen from loved ones as the rituals bring bad luck and, in some cases, even death to the victims.
Watch Ruparanganda, a sociologist from the University of Zimbabwe, found that semen was increasingly used as a tradable commodity. Ruparanganda revealed how several young men would be taken to hotels to engage in sex with prostitutes and then told to turn over their used condoms.
It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies, the sociologist said to the news service.
So far, local authorities have not revealed the exact number of confirmed incidents. Nakai Nengomasha, a counselor who's worked with such victims, suggested there could be more cases which have gone unreported.
I think there has been a lot of under-reporting because the victims will feel not man enough to talk about such issues and that will hinder them from speaking out, Nengomasha was quoted as saying to the BBC. Some have to deal with the issue of seeing the assault as a loss of manhood and feel disgusted with themselves, the counselor added.
In order to avoid being targeted by these sperm hunters, national police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena cautioned Zimbabwean men against traveling alone.
We encourage people to use public transport, he was quoted as saying to AFP.

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Mashava - Susan Dhliwayo was stunned when she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in. The reason? They feared being raped.
Sensational reports of gangs of beautiful women picking up male travellers to have sex and harvest their sperm in condoms have gripped Zimbabwe in a dizzying mix of taboos, rituals and the downright bizarre.
“Now, men fear women. They said: 'we can't go with you because we don't trust you',” 19-year-old Dhliwayo recounted.
Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point - even with a live snake in one case - given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the roadside.
The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009 but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
“We do not have the exact number of confirmed cases,” said national police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.
“These cases occurred mostly when the victims were hitchhiking and boarded private vehicles. We encourage people to use public transport.”
The sperm's exact use is not clear but is thought to be intended for “juju” or traditional rituals to bring luck - anything from enhancing good fortune, boosting business or preventing a criminal from being detected.
It is also not known why the semen is taken forcibly from strangers.
“It's really an issue which is mind boggling,” said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes it is a lucrative business. “It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know (it is) being used for rituals.”
Ruparanganda said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a tradable commodity, while doing research for his doctoral thesis among Harare street youth who told him that businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze.
They were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex.
“It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies,” said Ruparanganda.
The headline-grabbing reports have not shocked Tende Marahu, 24, who tells of men and “sugar mamas” picking up young men from the streets in his neighbourhood to collect their sperm secured in a knotted condom after sex.
“It started a long time back,” Marahu said, adding he had not yet partaken but would happily do so for the money. “To me, I didn't get shocked because I already knew it was happening.”
The reports are not unique to Zimbabwe, with Nigerian media last year reporting prostitutes collecting sperm-filled condoms to sell.
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association slams the practice.
“We believe that this is a form of witchcraft. So we are totally against the idea,” said spokesman George Kandiyero.
“It has really frightened people,” he said. “It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way round, normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men.”
Kandiyero suggested that one reason why the harvesters don't solicit sperm from their loved ones is the belief that sperm used in “jujus” could bring on trouble for the man.
“That is the problem with some of these 'jujus' that are used to make money, most of them have negative side effects,” he said.
A Zimbabwean women's rights group has criticised the spotlight shifting to male rape victims, and paid for a newspaper advert to deplore that violence against women in the country is not met with the same degree of shock.
The three women linked to the case, meanwhile, have stirred much attention and public anger. Audiences pack into the dreary courtrooms each time they appear in the dock, and one of their lawyers said they have received death threats.
No law in Zimbabwe criminalises rape by women so the trio, arrested with one man, face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has as yet been set.
Dumisani Mthombeni, a lawyer for two of the women and the man, complained that five months after their arrest, prosecutors have yet to produce DNA test results, a charge sheet or witness statements but nonetheless have “paraded (the women) on national television as female rapists”.
“We have not been given anything - nothing,” Mthombeni said. “We believe they don't want us to go to trial because they arrested the wrong people.”
The case has triggered a mix of shock, intrigue and humour - such as one newspaper cartoon showing a nude hitchhiker hoping to be picked up by a female driver - but also fear among some men.
“Of course we are scared,” said a 26-year-old hitchhiker on a highway south of Harare, adding he would not get into a car driven by a woman. “Even if she's old, we can't.” - Sapa-AFP
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Gangs of beautiful women are reportedly patrolling the highways of Zimbabwe, picking up male travellers to have sex with in order to harvest their sperm.
According to local media reports, hitchhikers have reported being drugged, threatened with knives and even live snakes before they are forced into sex and then dumped by the roadside.
The sperm is apparently then used in good luck "ju-ju" rituals.
In November, three sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged with attacking male hitchhikers and harvesting their sperm for rituals, Today Online reported.
The Nhokwara sisters were caught when they had a car accident and police found 30 used condoms in their car boot. They face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault in a country where a woman raping a man is not considered a criminal offence.
The trio told a Harare court they are merely hard-working prostitutes.
One woman told AFP how she had recently pulled over to pick up a group of male hitchhikers who refused to get into her car for fear of being raped.
National police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told Zimbabwe Times Live there was not yet an exact number of confirmed cases, but warned male travellers to be vigilant.
He added: "These cases occurred mostly when the victims were hitchhiking and boarded private vehicles. We encourage people to use public transport."

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