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A Matobo vegetable vendor allegedly fatally attacked his friend and business partner with a stone following an argument on the language used by characters in a movie they were watching. Prosper Ncube, 22, and Collen Ndlovu had an argument on whether the characters in the movie were speaking in Xhosa or Zulu while watching a movie together in Bulawayo.
Tempers flared and degenerated into a fist-fight. Prosper allegedly picked a stone and struck Ndlovu once on the head. Ndlovu died on the spot.
Ncube last week appeared before Bulawayo magistrate, Charity Maphosa facing murder charges.
He was asked not to plead and remanded in custody to August 20.
The magistrate advised him to apply for bail at the High Court.
Appearing for the State, Dumisani Ndlovu told the court that Ncube and Ndlovu were friends who ran a business of selling vegetables from Matobo using a donkey drawn scorch cart.
“On August 3 at a company in Donnington in Bulawayo at 8PM, the two men were watching a movie in the company of Elias Ntini, the owner of the company. The two then had a disagreement over the language which was being spoken by characters in the movies they were watching.
“The two left the premises and went outside to their cart still arguing about the language the characters were using. The argument degenerated into a fist-fight,” said Ndlovu.
He told the court that a certain man went back into the premises and notified Ntini that the two were fighting.
“As Ntini was coming out he observed Ncube picking up two stones. Ncube then struck Ndlovu once on the left head above the left ear and he fell down. Ntini and the man tried rendering First Aid to Ndlovu but noticed that he was already dead,” said Ndlovu.
The court also heard that Ncube immediately fled the scene.
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