The accused is a 68-year-old female first offender. She is married and has 6 children. She has two grandchildren that she stays with. She pleaded guilty to driving a private motor vehicle without a licence in contravention of s 6 (1) of the Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11]. She also pleaded guilty to culpable homicide as defined in s 49 (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] as read with s 64 (3) of the Road Traffic Act. More
The accused was on his own plea of guilty convicted of cultivating 52 plants of dagga in contravention of s 156 (1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Cap 9:23], (the Act). He was sentenced to 84 months imprisonment of which 24 months were suspended for 5 years on condition that he does not within that period commit any offence involving cultivation, possession or selling of dagga. The dagga was forfeited to the State. More
The four accused pleaded not guilty to the murder of their own father.
The events leading to the charge of murder can be set out as follows.
There were trials and tribulations in the Chigayi family. That family in issue being the nuclear family headed by the now late Sam Chigayi. More
: In S v Tevedzayi TSANGA J painted a graphic picture of the amount of violence going on against women in a lot of homes when she said:
“An increasing number of cases brought before the courts reveal that far too frequently the bedroom has become a deadly environment for women as a result of men’s violent outbursts in the resolution of disputes. Women have been clobbered, booted, strangled, stabbed, or slashed to death by their spouse in the confines of the bedroom, all the while by men who would have the courts believe that but for their wife’s sluttish... More
The accused faces a charge of murder, in contravention of s47(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23] (hereinafter called “Code”), it being alleged that he caused the death of Sydney Zuruvi (hereinafter called “the deceased”), by stabbing him with a kitchen knife all over his body thereby inflicting mortal wounds. More
