South African court fines, deports Mugabe's son over immigration and firearms charges
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe pleaded guilty to immigration and firearms offenses unrelated to February shooting at family home.

A South African court has fined and ordered the deportation of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's youngest son following his guilty plea to immigration and firearms-related charges.
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, and his cousin Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, 33, were initially charged with attempted murder after an employee was shot in the back at the Mugabe family home in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb on February 19.
The court proceedings concluded two months after the shooting incident, with Mugabe receiving a fine and deportation order for offenses described as unrelated to the February shooting. According to one report, the firearms charge involved pointing a toy gun.
The charges that led to the fine and deportation order were separate from the attempted murder case stemming from the shooting at the family residence. The current status of the attempted murder charges was not immediately clear from available court records.
Mugabe is the son of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime leader who ruled the country for nearly four decades until his removal from power in 2017. The former president died in 2019.