AT a hotel in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane 5 suburb, Mr Titus Ncube is waiting for the prostitute he’s hired. When she arrives her recognises her. The woman is his 20-year-old daughter.

Says Mr Ncube:

“I am sorry for what I did. I spoke to my wife and my daughter. I apologised for my actions because I just wanted my family back.”

The Zimbabwe News Online says dad has forgiven his daughter “for being a commercial sex worker and hired a therapist to counsel her“.

She was doing wrong, while he was…saving fallen women?

“I don’t blame my daughter for what happened and what she was doing. I feel it was her way of expressing her feelings about the problems in my family. She has stopped that and is going back to school next year. My marital problems are not over, but we have a marriage counsellor who is helping us to get over this most difficult period in our marriage.”

Says Mr Ncube’s wife, Rosemary:

“If it were not for my children, I could have divorced him a long time ago. But because I know the trauma that divorce has on children, I made a decision to stay.”

She could kick him but, then, he’d only check into another hotel room… And watch out for the donkeys.