Online Reporter
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau
A 44-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge man has been jailed for 14 months for stealing goats, slaughtering them and selling the meat to backyard kitchens.
Wiseman Dube, who had been playing hide-and-seek with the police, was finally arrested after stealing five goats in the Tshapfutshe area in March this year.
He was charged with stock theft and possessing prohibited knives when he appeared before Beitbridge resident magistrate Mr Takudzwa Gwazemba on Thursday.
Prosecutor, Mr Tawanda Chigavazira said the accused, who is also a pirate taxi driver, went to Tshapfutshe area on March 19, driving a Honda Fit in the company of two other suspects who are still at large.
He dropped off his two accomplices in the grazing lands in the area and parked his car in a secluded place.
The two men stole five goats belonging to a local villager, which they loaded into Dube’s car.
They drove to Beitbridge and, upon arrival, they parked in a bushy area some 10km along the road leading to Bulawayo, where they slaughtered the goats.
However, they were spotted by a resident who alerted the police who swiftly reacted and arrested Dube while his two accomplices escaped.
The police recovered the five carcasses worth R9 600 and a set of knives which Dube and his team had used to slaughter the goats.
