The magistrate who got Bulawayo High Court Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa fired over nude photos, Oratile Nare, has finally been positively identified by The NewsHawks. All along the media used wrong pictures of various women they claimed showed Nare; here she is the real Nare!
Nare is a magistrate in Nkayi, Matabeleland North, but she is suspended over a different issue related to gross misconduct.
At the time when she was dating Mabhikwa she was an assistant of fellow Bulawayo judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva.
Mabhikwa was accused of abuse of office.
So one day last year Nare visted Mabhikwa at his home to spend a night there. The judge's wife died in 2020.
While the judge was sleeping, Nare took his phone and went throught it.
She came across a lot of sexually explicit stuff, nudes, between the judge and another woman Patie.
In a fit of rage, Nare sent the nudes and messages to a group of colleagues and other people to expose and embarrass the judge.
Social media went abuzz and wild with the sex scandal, forcing government to intervene to investigate the veracity of the details that were circulating.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa last June set up a tribunal to investigate the issue and it recently finished the probe. As a result, Mabhikwa was found guilty and fired.
However, all along the media has been using wrong photos of Nare.
The name Oratile Nare itself is a common Sotho/Tswana name in Matabeleland South province, especially in Gwanda/Beitbridge and countries like South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana where Sotho/Tswana people are found.
On one occasion, a local daily was forced to retract photos it had used claiming they showed Nare, when those were pictures of a National University of Science and Technology student Uratile Nare.
The student issued a statement clarifying that it was a case of mistaken identity.
The real Nare - the suspended magistrate involved in the sex scandal which brought down Mabhikwa who was found guilty of abuse of office and also lewdly leveraging his power to prey on a vulnerable female colleague, gross misconduct and behaving without integrity - is this one.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired suspended Bulawayo High Court Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa for gross misconduct, sexual harassment and nude photos after a nasty and bitter fallout with a colleague and lover Oratile Nare following a tribunal investigation.
Mnangagwa in June last year constituted a three-member tribunal to investigate the suitability of Mabhikwa to continue serving on the bench after being charged for alleged misconduct, sexual harassment and possessing pornographic material linked to his former girlfriend Nare.
The tribunal was initially made up of retired Justice Maphios Cheda
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