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MDC-T Chiredzi district leader was last week fined US$150 after he was convicted of poking President Mugabe’s portrait with a pool cue at a beerhall, blaming him for his failure to secure employment despite having passed his ‘O’ Levels. Chiredzi magistrate Mr Honest Musiiwa ordered Regis Kandawasvika (33) to pay US$150 fine or alternatively go to jail for two months.
The court heard that on October 22 last year Kandawasvika who had been issued with a new bicycle by the MDC-T party for campaign purposes cycled to Khomanani council bar in Tshovani township for a beer drink.
While at the beerhall Kandawasvika had an altercation with a council security officer who had ordered him to park his bicycle outside the bar and not inside like what he was insisting to do.
After complying with the order to park his bicycle outside the beer hall, Kandawasvika went inside and started playing the game of pool with one Robert Madhamara, a Chiredzi town council worker and Zanu-PF supporter.
The pair started mocking each other with Kandawasvika telling Madhamara that while his MDC-T party had given him a bicycle Zanu-PF had given the latter nothing.
Madhamara then hit back and said though Zanu-PF had not given him a bicycle he was lucky to be employed and lampooned Kandawasvika that despite having a bicycle he could not afford to repair it once it broke down since he was jobless.
This incensed Kandawasvika who then took a pool cue and charged towards President Mugabe’s portrait that was hung on the wall.
He started poking it with the cue and throwing bottle tops on it saying words to that effect that he wanted President Mugabe to give him a job since he had passed his “O’’ Levels.
Kandawasvika also boasted that President Mugabe was not going to make it in the July 31 harmonised elections.
He was arrested by police detectives who swooped on him while busy poking the portrait. Mr Liberty Hove appeared for the State.
Online Reporter