{UAH} Four Botswana Man Arrested For Tracking Their Stolen Donkeys Over The Border

Four Botswana Man Arrested For Tracking Their Stolen Donkeys Over The Border

November 4, 2018

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FOUR Botswana nationals who illegally crossed into Zimbabwe while trailing a spoor of their alleged stolen donkeys, have escaped jail after a court noted that they were simple rural folk.

The quartet of William Mbule Mangalani (66), Mothusi Mbisana (25), Charles Nkathazo (27) and Mooki Mbule (27) of Botswana were convicted on their own pleas of guilty to contravening section 1 (1) as read with section 11 (5) (6) of the Immigration Act chapter 4.02 (Entry into Zimbabwe through an undesignated entry point) when they appeared before Plumtree resident magistrate, Miss Sharon Rosemani.

They were each fined $60 in default of which they were supposed to serve an alternative sentence of 20 days in prison.

Sentencing them, Miss Rosemani noted that the Batswana were simple rural folk who are ignorant of the law, but driven by the desire to find their donkeys which they suspected were stolen and taken into Zimbabwe.

"They are simple rural folk and could not perform community service because they have no place to reside in Zimbabwe. They even went to the police seeking help to find their donkeys. A fine will suffice as they could be able to pay and go," said Miss Rosemani.

In mitigation, the quartet which cannot read and write, said they entered the country tracking a spoor of their stolen donkeys which was their source of livelihoods as peasant farmers in the neighbouring country.

Prosecuting, Mr Zorodzai Pengapenga told the court that on Friday last week at around 7AM, the quartet entered Zimbabwe through an undesignated point of entry tracking a spoor of their alleged stolen donkeys.

They proceeded to Butshe police base in Madlambuzi to seek assistance to track the donkeys into Tsholotsho.

However, police officers manning the police base interviewed them and discovered that they had no travelling documents leading to their arrest. Their donkeys were still to be recovered.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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"I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives … circumcision being the first." Judge Judy

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