In 2012 alone, Harare recorded 824 women and girls getting raped. A rise from 801 recorded in 2011. This was why on Tuesday, President Mugabe advocated deterrent sentences for potential rapists at a luncheon hosted by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing to celebrate the official opening of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament. He told guests that Government would take stern measures against rapists, including the possibility of castration - in his words, he said: "that which makes him rape must go".
People were reminded that in the past, rape used to be punishable by death, but human rights campaigners had protested against the death penalty, arguing that it was inhuman.
The President lamented the double standards by these human rights activists who fail to see that rape "dehumanises a person".
Some bribe their way out of being prosecuted, while others serve less than half of their sentences and when released become marauding beasts pouncing on little girls, young and even elderly women.
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