Norman Mubape got employed by Thomas Mapfumo soon after finishing his Ordinary Level. He was a musician/band member and played his music for fifteen years in order to earn a living.

Norman would sleep with six to eight women after every show without condoms, paying every one of them and sometimes would not sleep at his home with his wife. If confronted by his wife he would beat her up until she became unconscious.

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In 1996 he became ill and his relatives thought that he was being bewitched by his wife but instead he was diagnosed HIV positive and was admitted to Mashambazhou (Home of Hope) where he was left to die since those days there was no cure for the disease.

Norman’s wife deserted him because of his continued illness and he received harassment from his relatives because he had contracted HIV/AIDS. Now he is living positively and has remarried to an HIV positive woman. Norman is very grateful to Padare Men’s Forum on Gender who gave him counseling.