A 65-year-old traditional healer from Bezha Village in Umzingwane
district impregnated three teenagers from the village including his own
daughter for whom he paid Z$80 billion bride price.
Angry villagers on 18 February converged at headman Nkala’s homestead
demanding the arrest of Killion Moyo, describing him as a “sex predator”
from whom their children were not safe.
Nkala said the issue was reported to Esigodini police.
According to Chronicle News, Moyo fathered two children aged four and
three with his daughter. He warned he would send lightning to strike
anyone asking about his relationships.
A neighbour’s daughter also has Moyo’s children aged eight and five
while another girl who reportedly fled to neighbouring South Africa, has
a three-year-old child with the traditional healer.
Moyo confessed to a Chronicle News crew that he had been sleeping with
his daughter since 2003 when she was in Grade Seven, alleging it was a
way of appeasing the spirit of his late wife.
Further, he stunned villagers alleging that he had paid Z$80 billion
lobola (bride price) to his daughter’s grandmother. He also confessed
that he has been sleeping with two other young girls from the village.
A villager said: “We are afraid of Moyo because he always threatens to
strike people with lightning. He has been involved in a string of child
abuse and rape cases for many years.”
One of the victims aged 23, told Chronicle that she was in Grade Seven
when she was told by her parents that she was going to stay with Moyo
because he was now responsible for paying her fees.
She said Moyo did not send her to school but started involving her in his rituals.
“Moyo gave me a separate room but at night he would sneak into my blankets and tell me that I was a wife of the spirits.
“He took my virginity raping me until I fell pregnant at the age of 14.
He threatened me with lightning if I tried to escape. As it is, I have
two children with him and he does not take care of them,” said the
victim, who has since fled back to her parents.
Her father, Lazarus Dube said Moyo tricked him into allowing him to
marry his under-age daughter by promising him sweet potatoes and cattle.
“He never brought the cattle or the sweet potatoes,” said Dube.
Moyo told Chronicle that the spirit of his late wife Joyce Mpofu ordered him to marry their daughter. His wife died in 1990.
“My wife worked with me during my rituals. After her death she tormented
me through dreams, asking me to look for a woman belonging to the
family who was going to take her role,” said Moyo, displaying a
toothless grin.
“I discussed with my mother-in-law, Petheni Moyo-Bhebhe asking her to
give me a wife from her family so that I could solve my problems. She
agreed to replace Joyce with my daughter, now 23-years-old.”
Moyo said he took his daughter to his shrine, which he calls Elitsheni
and introduced her to the ancestors who approved their marriage.
He added: “I paid my mother-in-law Z$80 billion lobola. She refused to
inform other relatives about the issue. I then started sleeping with
her.”
Chronicle caught up with Moyo-Bhebhe who denied facilitating the marriage.
“I was staying with (her grand daughter) before she went to stay with
her father after writing her Grade Seven examinations. Her father
promised to take her to school.
“After two years I heard that she was now pregnant. I went to the homestead to ask who was responsible for the pregnancy.
“When I arrived, Moyo fled from the homestead while she told me that a
village boy was responsible for the pregnancy,” said Moyo-Bhebhe.
She said when she heard rumours about the incestuous relationship; she
questioned her granddaughter who accused her of being jealous.
“I decided to leave them alone and I was surprised when she fell
pregnant again the following year. In 2012 she came to my home with her
children and wanted to leave them with me. She told me that she had
realised that everything was wrong and she could not bear her sins but I
chased her away and told her to leave the children with their father.”
“She dumped the children at Moyo’s homestead and disappeared,” she added.
Police spokesperson for Matabeleland South, Assistant Inspector
Christopher Ngwenya said his office was yet to receive a report about
the issue.
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