JEFTA DUBE, sexually abused by former Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana while he worked as his aide-de-camp during the 1980s, petitioned the justice ministry on Thursday for a free pardon or remission of sentence. Dube has served two years of a 10-year jail sentence for killing police officer Patrick Mashiri in 1995. Mashiri called Dube “Banana’s wife” in reference to the homosexual acts he was being forced into by the former president. Banana was this week sentenced to an effective one-year jail term and given a large fine for 11 sodomy convictions.