A university lecturer, Shirley Tendai Chapunza, 27, will spend six months in jail for importing sex toys.
The judgement was handed down by a Court in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, after customs authoriteis intercepted the parcel of three sex toys, sent from Germany
Chapunza was sentenced to spend half a year in prison but magistrate Shot Game offered her the option of a fine of Z$60,000 (about US$95).
Prosecutor Sehliselo Khumalo told the court how on May 31 this year, the geomatics and surveying engineer turned up at the main post office in Bulawayo to collect a parcel sent from Germany.
She was charged under section 47(1)b of the Customs and Excise Act which prohibits the importation of “any goods which are indecent, obscene or objectionable.”
The law under a section on “goods prohibited from importation” also bans the shipment of “any goods which might tend to deprave the morals of the inhabitants… of Zimbabwe,” reported ZimLive.
Meanwhile, a 23-year-old Harare woman, Ayanda Unity Mponda was detained for 15 days in May before she obtained bail at the High Court in May after she allegedly imported sex toys for sale.
