Bellarmine Mugabe, the 28-year-old son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, has been ordered to leave South Africa. The decision follows legal proceedings related to a shooting incident that occurred in Johannesburg in February, where a man was reportedly shot at Mugabe's residence.
According to reports from the Daily Maverick, an independent African publication, the judicial process has concluded. The outlet reports that Mugabe avoided a prison sentence but was fined 600,000 South African Rand and faces immediate deportation. The same source notes that his cousin, Tobias Matonhodze, who pleaded guilty to more serious charges, received a three-year prison sentence.
The BBC, a mainstream European broadcaster, frames the event primarily as a deportation order for a firearms offence, noting Mugabe's arrest earlier this year. Its report does not mention the specific financial penalty or the contrasting prison sentence for Matonhodze detailed by the Daily Maverick.
Both sources confirm the core outcome of deportation for Mugabe following the incident. However, the Daily Maverick provides a more detailed account of the court's full ruling, including the fine and the separate sentencing of his co-accused, while the BBC's report focuses on the deportation order itself.