{"id":1228751,"date":"2022-10-19T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/shock-as-woman-loses-voice-shortly-before-giving-testimony-in-court\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:54:33","slug":"shock-as-woman-loses-voice-shortly-before-giving-testimony-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/shock-as-woman-loses-voice-shortly-before-giving-testimony-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock as woman loses voice shortly before giving testimony in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"27\">\n<p>In a case that has sparked controversies in Zimbabwe, a woman is reported to have mysteriously lost her voice just moments before she was supposed to testify at a High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Words failed the distraught woman when it was time to give testimony in trial against her daughter\u2019s alleged rapist.<\/p>\n<p>The woman could only sob and gesture as she hopelessly tried to explain what had happened to her. <\/p>\n<p>The video of the mother wailing uncontrollably at the courts was shared by the lifestyle tabloid\u00a0H-Metro.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-249.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-249-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2173576\"\/><figcaption>Woman loses her voice before giving testimony in court <em>Credit: Twitter\/H-Metro\/Lee Maidza]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She could be seen making frantic attempts to talk, and sobbed louder upon realising she failed.<\/p>\n<p>After the video was shared online, some netizens who were present at the court commented on how she fell multiple times in court before the judge called for their hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The video has since generated mixed reactions on social media with netizens suggesting the court uses other means of communication like a pen and paper.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5EZvgHCoG5I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Run Away - Paul &amp; Silas Week 30 Episode 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5EZvgHCoG5I?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case that has sparked controversies in Zimbabwe, a woman is reported to have mysteriously lost her voice just moments before she was supposed to testify at a High Court. Words failed the distraught woman when it was time to give testimony in trial against her daughter\u2019s alleged rapist. The woman could only sob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}