Sex worker assaults colleague over HIV status

Zim Now Writer

A sex worker based in Mazowe appeared before magistrate Joshua Nembaware at the Concession Magistrates courts after she allegedly slapped a colleague at a bar for revealing her HIV status.

Marble Chirozva pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Prosecutor Precious Khanye alleged that on May 20, Chirozva was drinking beer with her colleague Mirriam Marufu, 32, at a local bar in Mazowe.

Marufu had come from Bindura to see her colleague but later the two had a serious misunderstanding after Marufu revealed Chirozva’s HIV status.

Chirozva slapped Marufu once on the face and she rushed to the police station to file a report.

The matter continues on June 27.