Gokwe Chief Sounds Alarm Over Rising Adultery Cases

A chief in Gokwe North District, Midlands Province, says he is concerned about a worrying decline in marital values as adultery cases now dominate his community court.

Speaking to Masvingo Mirror on the sidelines of a recent tour of the Dewe wetland, Chief Vimbai Toringepi of Copper Queen Farms said he deals with between four and five adultery cases every month.

He said the trend points to what he sees as a growing loss of respect for marriage.

Chief Toringepi added that most of the cases involve married women and younger men, while others involve people who are married — a situation he described as deeply troubling. He said:

“Most cases we are handling nowadays are adultery cases involving married women with single boys and even other married men as well.

“It is a pity how women no longer respect their marriages and have extra-marital affairs.

“Every month we have four to five adultery cases. Sadly, this generation of young women you call Ama2000 is proving to be different and difficult in terms of human dignity.”

Chief Toringepi also raised concerns about child marriage, saying that although such cases are supposed to be reported directly to the police, many incidents go unreported. He said:

“When it comes to child marriages, we refer them to the police directly.

“However, the challenge is that most of these cases go unreported because villagers are afraid of reporting each other.

“The law is there, but people are still doing it, and the cases just disappear.”

The traditional leader urged communities to speak out against harmful practices, warning that staying silent only lets social decay take root.

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