Mugabe heir faces rapid deportation from SA after gun-case plea

Bellarmine Mugabe, the youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late president Robert Mugabe, was ordered deported from South Africa after pleading guilty to pointing a firearm and illegal residence; he was fined about $36,000. His cousin, Tobias Matonhodze, received a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to attempted murder and related charges following a February shooting at Bellarmine’s Johannesburg home that left a 23-year-old man critically injured. The gun cited in court was described by a judge as a toy, and Mugabe has faced multiple legal issues in the region and Zimbabwe previously.