10 December 2021
Shamila N Mdlongwa
Just like the ‘Abhero Mhoro’ song which was inspired by a pornographic intonation, another song has emerged this time driven on a full ponorgraphic video posted on a family WhatsApp group.
The video of a ‘sekuru’ shouting at Tinashe to remove the video with sexual scenes, is trending on several social media platforms. In the video trending on Twitter and WhatsApp this past Wednesday a voice of an elderly male person saved as Sekuru Christopher is heard shouting,
“Tinashe, Tinashe iwe Tinashe waitei, bvisa zvawaisa izvo”.
The voice note of Sekuru Christopher is then followed by another lady who in the video hardly finishes what she is typing.
The “mum” is seen typing but the message is not shown.
This incident comes at a time when President Mnangagwa has just signed into law the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill which criminalizes pornography and child porn amongst other things.
The bill describes pornography as:
“Pornography” includes any representation, through publication, exhibition,
cinematography, electronic means or any other means whatsoever, of
a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activity, or any
representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual
purposes.”
The bill criminalizes pornography and has put a punishment of 5-10 years of jail sentence for such a crime.
The “Tinashe, Tinashe” video has been trending on Twitter and many have made memes and short video songs about the video.
Videos such as that of @Long John the Comedian, and one amapiano song tweeted by @Wasu Wakafunda have been trending.
Since the bill has been approved and put into law, what then happens to Tinashe who posted a porn video in a WhatsApp group and the person that recorded the whole video and uploaded it on Twitter?
Will they both get the 5-10 year jail term for this post?
We wait and see how the law and enforcement agents will deal with these.
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