{"id":10954,"date":"2026-01-08T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:50:08","slug":"boyfriend-charged-with-alleged-murder-of-cordelia-masalethulini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10954\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriend charged with alleged murder of Cordelia Masalethulini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3mob_topbanner.jpg\" width=\"1128\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767865807_630_Cordelia-Masalethulini-PIC-Eleven-Dogs-Inc-hakustream-1024x572.jpeg\" alt=\"Cordelia Masalethulini PIC Eleven Dogs Inc hakustream\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-77979\"\/>Cordelia Masalethulini PIC Eleven Dogs Inc hakustream<\/p>\n<p>Cordelia Masalethulini\u2019s death is actively being investigated as a murder, and her boyfriend has been arrested over it.<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Fungai Tawengwa, 46, of Warwick Road in Greystone Park, made a brief appearance before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo, charged with murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was not asked to plead, but was remanded to custody until 22 January. Tawengwa has been advised to appeal to the High Court for bail.<\/p>\n<p>The State says Tawengwa was in a romantic relationship with the deceased, and the two had been drinking at the Helensvale Shopping Centre in Borrowdale.<\/p>\n<p>From there, they decided to go to Domoboshava, but on the way, they were impeded by rain and stayed at a place on Whisper Road up to around 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>While there, they had a misunderstanding, and Masalethulini initially refused to go home with Tawengwa.<\/p>\n<p>When the rain subsided, the two left on foot towards Harare-Domboshava Road.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaE9gCp9xVJlEgRF2u40\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/click-to_whatsapp_channel.jpg\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Masalethulini\u2019s body was found at 6 am on 5 January on that road.<\/p>\n<p>The State says that when he was arrested, Tawengwa\u2019s clothes had fresh blood stains. The CID Forensic Science Laboratory is analysing them.<\/p>\n<p>Masalethulini\u2019s body was taken to Parirenyatwa Hospital Mortuary for a post-mortem to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p> Join 795 other subscribers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cordelia Masalethulini PIC Eleven Dogs Inc hakustream Cordelia Masalethulini\u2019s death is actively being investigated as a murder, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-10954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}