Zimbabwe: Negligent Driver Lands Behind Bars for Culpable Homicide

A Chegutu magistrate has sentenced a 44-year-old Kadoma man to 13 months in prison for causing the death of a pedestrian through negligent driving.

Panganai Mutize was convicted of culpable homicide when he appeared before the Chegutu Magistrates Court.

The presiding magistrate sentenced Mutize to 13 months’ imprisonment, of which five months were suspended on condition of good behaviour. He will, therefore, serve an effective eight months behind bars. Further, he was banned from driving for three…