%0 Journal Article %T Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe %A Landa %A Nhlanhla %A Tshotsho %A Baba %A Zhou %A Sindiso %J Journal of Power and Energy Engineering 电力与能源 %D 2019 %R 10.17159/2413-3027/2019/v32n2a5 %K Clergy %K sexual abuse %K language of deception %K courtship language %K Christian abuse %K women abuse The study employed a qualitative approach. Our sample includes a collection of 17 news articles drawn from several news providers in Zimbabwe. These are either fully online newspapers or online versions of the printed newspapers %K which are easy to access. The specific articles were selected using a keyword search on the Internet. The keywords included rape %K Zimbabwe %K sexual abuse %K pastor %K and prophet. There was no specific criterion for selecting the newspapers %K as the process started by identifying the news articles on the Internet before getting the details of the newspapers in which they were published %K which were only relevant as far as they informed us on the credibility of the content as well as for purposes of sourcing. %U http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012019000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en