Alleged ZBC ‘sex pest’ survives the chop, said to have brought a battalion of lawyers to save battered skin

Harare- ZIMBABWE Broadcasting Corporation Director of Radio Services, Robson Mhandu has survived the chop over allegations of sexual harassment,Express Mail Zim can exclusively reveal.

The development has been kept a well guarded secret but impeccable sources told Express Mail Zim that Mhandu attended the disciplinary recently, hearing armed with a battalion of lawyers, unlike DJ Scott (Matengambiri) who preffered to be a self actor and subsequently resigned-probably to salvage his severance package!

Mhandu , which can loosely be translated to enemy in vernacular, has a record of allegations enclined on lacking kindness to the fairer sex and has been perennially accused of ‘devouring’ such species synonymous
with his totem Shumba- which means Lion.

In this particular suspension and dramatic survival , he was accused of demanding sex from a female presenter in order to approve her transfer request from Bulawayo to Harare.

Audios have since leaked of Mhandu telling one Farai Juliet Magada, also known as Farie Jules, that she needed to “motivate me by work and number two, the obvious… it’s a combination of the two.”

“Tell me if you don’t want to do it and you’ll go back to Bulawayo.”

Magada asked Mhandu if her transfer was going to depend on sex and he responded saying, “we don’t separate the two.”

“I will send you to Bulawayo, I have the power,” he threatened.

Mhandu added that his sexual demands are “the practical realities of life.”

In a strategic conversation , Magada asked if she was guaranteed a transfer if she gave him sex.

Mhandu responded: “It’s one million percent guaranteed… Remember you moved from Khulumani FM to Classic 263 on my signature MaMoyo. Your talk of guarantees is purely a sign of disrespect from a typical Zimbabwean woman.”

Mhandu has been sucked into related allegations during his stint at ZIMRA and in his constituency in Chitungwiza where he fired blanks at an attempt to be elected legislator under ZANU PF ticket.
Inside sources told a top local publication that sex pests were dominating media houses and the new Information minister Jenfan Muswere raised a red flag after gathering intelligence from his well experienced assistant and award winning journalist Elias Mambo who has a reputation of speaking truth to power.

“This is just a tip of the there is need for conducting a wider inquiry, led by an independent panel. What they will find is a sickening sexual bullying culture that has permeated the organisation for many years,” said an employee talking to a top online publication.

Muswere validated the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) media sector Sexual Harassment Draft Policy saying it would help rid the industry of sex perverts in the media sector.

“As government, we believe that we do not have a monopoly of knowledge and this is precisely why we are participating at this sexual harassment validation workshop,” he said.

“Of importance, as we develop the Sexual Harassment Policy that will take care of all the shortcomings that we have in terms of the gender policies in all newsrooms in the country, it is very important that we redefine what sexual harassment is.

“What is the scope? How do we triangulate that we have connected?”

The squint eyed veteran broadcaster however has an eye for ‘top soup’ (read as beautiful women) in street lingua/ colloquial language.

ZBC authorities could not be immediately available at the time of writing after Express Mail Zim’s relentless efforts throughout the week.aa