Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe : ce qu'il faut savoir

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe also fined after pleading guilty to immigration and firearms-related offences. Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Zimbabwe ce jeudi.

Les faits

• Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe also fined after pleading guilty to immigration and firearms-related offences.
• Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, and his cousin Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, 33, were initially both charged with attempted murder after the incident on 19 February.
• Bellarmine Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and illegally being in the country earlier this month after he was arrested following the shooting of a 23-year-old man at his home.
• A court in Johannesburg on Wednesday ordered Bellarmine Mugabe to pay a fine of $36,000 or face a two-year prison sentence for brandishing a toy gun in a manner that created the impression it was real, as well as for being in the country illegally.
• The youngest son of Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe has been deported from South Africa and has arrived in Zimbabwe, following an order from a Johannesburg court.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, and his cousin Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, 33, were initially both charged with attempted murder after the incident on 19 February.

Sur le fond, Bellarmine Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and illegally being in the country earlier this month after he was arrested following the shooting of a 23-year-old man at his home.

Concrètement, a court in Johannesburg on Wednesday ordered Bellarmine Mugabe to pay a fine of $36,000 or face a two-year prison sentence for brandishing a toy gun in a manner that created the impression it was real, as well as for being in the country illegally.

Au-delà de ce constat, the youngest son of Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe has been deported from South Africa and has arrived in Zimbabwe, following an order from a Johannesburg court.

Reste à préciser que Bellarmine Mugabe is one of two sons Robert Mugabe had with his second wife, Grace.

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs : the 28-year-old was arrested in February after a man had been shot at his home in Johannesburg.

Plus précisément, both men were arrested on 19 February when police were called to Mugabe's home in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Hyde Park.

Dans la foulée, Mugabe was ordered to pay a fine of 400,000 rand (£17,851) for pointing a toy gun in a way that was likely to be seen as real firearm, over a separate incident in 2023.

À ce stade, the magistrate said the sentences were mitigated by the two men pleading guilty to the offences, the time they had spent in prison since the shooting on 19 February, and because the victim, 23-year-old Sipho Mahlangu, wanted to withdraw the charges after being paid by Mugabe and Matonhodze.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que a magistrate has ordered that the youngest son of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is to be deported immediately from South Africa after pleading guilty to two offences earlier this month.

À noter par ailleurs : Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for almost 40 years, initially as a hero, having ended white minority rule in Zimbabwe.

Plus précisément, Mugabe and his older brother, Robert Junior, 34, became notorious in the 2010s for sharing their lavish lifestyles online.

Dans la foulée, In 2017, their mother, Grace Mugabe, avoided a court case in South Africa by invoking diplomatic immunity.

À ce stade, Mugabe was arrested on February 19 alongside his cousin, Tobias Matonhodze, after an employee at his home in the affluent Johannesburg suburb of Hyde Park was shot in the back.

Recherches associées

Plusieurs requêtes connexes accompagnent ce sujet : L'Afrique du Sud expulse le fils de Mugabe • Un fils de l’ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe condamné puis expulsé d’Afrique du Sud • Un tribunal sud-africain prononce l'expulsion d'un fils de l'ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe • Afrique du Sud: l'un des fils de l'ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe arrêté pour tentative de meurtre • 600 000 rands d’amende et expulsion : Le fils Mugabe escorté manu militari et expulsé d’Afrique du Sud • Fusillade de Johannesburg : Le fils de Mugabe nie avoir tiré sur son jardinier.

À retenir

• A court in Johannesburg on Wednesday ordered Bellarmine Mugabe to pay a fine of $36,000 or face a two-year prison sentence for brandishing a toy gun in a manner that created the impression it was real, as well as for being in the country illegally.
• The youngest son of Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe has been deported from South Africa and has arrived in Zimbabwe, following an order from a Johannesburg court.
• The 28-year-old was arrested in February after a man had been shot at his home in Johannesburg.
• Recherches qui explosent : L'Afrique du Sud expulse le fils de Mugabe, Un fils de l’ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe condamné puis expulsé d’Afrique du Sud, Un tribunal sud-africain prononce l'expulsion d'un fils de l'ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe, Afrique du Sud: l'un des fils de l'ex-président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe arrêté pour tentative de meurtre.