Zimbabwe: Chatunga Mugabe and Co-Accused Paid Shooting Victim R250,000 Cash to Silence Him – Court Hears

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R250,000 in cash and a promise of R150,000 more — that is what the youngest son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, Bellarmine Chatunga and his cousin allegedly paid the man they shot so he would keep his mouth shut.

The Alexandra Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday that 23-year-old Sipho Mahlangu, who was shot twice in the back at the Mugabe family’s Hyde Park residence in February,…