A court in South Africa has imposed financial penalties on the youngest son of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe after he was found guilty of pointing a replica firearm at a person and breaching immigration regulations.
The ruling also includes an order for Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe to be removed from the country.
Mugabe, believed to be in his late twenties, and another individual were taken into custody in February following an incident at a Johannesburg residence where a worker was shot and injured.
Both men have remained in detention since their arrest and entered guilty pleas as part of a plea arrangement with prosecutors.
Court proceedings revealed that Mugabe admitted to a separate offence involving the use of a toy gun, unrelated to the shooting case involving the injured worker.
He was fined 400,000 rand for the imitation firearm incident and an additional 200,000 rand for violating immigration laws.
His co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, pleaded guilty to attempted murder as well as other related charges, including obstruction of justice.
Matonhodze received a three-year prison sentence and will be deported after serving his term.
Investigators told the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court that the victim, who sustained gunshot wounds to the back, reached a compensation settlement of 250,000 rand, with a further 150,000 rand still pending payment.
The firearm used in the shooting has not yet been recovered, according to authorities.
Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe for 37 years following independence in 1980 before being removed from power in a 2017 military intervention; he died in 2019 at the age of 95 in Singapore.