Jephta Dube

Jefta Dube (* 1962 ) is a former police officer in Zimbabwe who was assigned to the personal protection of President Canaan Banana from 1983 to 1986 .

In 1995 he shot his colleague Patrick Mashiri after he had been called "Banana's wife". Jephta Dube was therefore sentenced in February 1997 by a court in Harare to ten years imprisonment for murder in the case of poor sanity.

This process made headlines because of the statements Dube used to accuse the former president of having regularly coerced him into sexual acts and drugged him from 1984 to 1986. When Dube once refused, the then president had him locked in jail for three days, but with the official reason that he did not answer the phone, i.e. a violation of official duties.

Canaan Banana, who joined the Organization for African Unity (OAU) as a diplomat in 1987 after Robert Mugabe assumed the presidency, was convicted. In the trial against him, eleven cases of sexual assault were proven. In addition to a prison term, he was also sentenced to pay $ 12,000 to Dube and his victim's family. But the problem of the personal dependence of civil servants on powerful politicians up to the forced tolerance of arbitrariness was not discussed further, as shown by the waning media interest. Jephta Dube disappeared from the headlines, and with him the problem.

Individual proof

1. ^ Daily Telegraph : Canaan Banana