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THERE was drama at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Court at Tredgold Building when a woman collapsed after her husband was sentenced to 12 years in prison for stocktheft.The woman, whose details could not be obtained, was sitting in the gallery on Tuesday when Bulawayo magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere convicted her husband Robert Ncube (33) and another man, Vusa Ngwenya (39) of two counts of stocktheft.
Mr Mberewere sentenced Ncube and Ngwenya to 12 years in prison each but they will serve an effective nine years each after three years were suspended on condition of good behaviour.
The woman remained calm when Mr Mberewere handed down the sentence and collapsed as the interpreter pronounced the sentence in IsiNdebele.
She was carried out of the courtroom by prison and police officers manning Court 2 and a female prison officer had to render first aid.
Ncube and Ngwenya were convicted on their own plea. The pair stole and slaughtered a steer belonging to Mr Isaiah Moyo at his farm in Fort Rixon and later stole his two donkeys which they used to transport the stolen meat to their homes.
Miss Concillia Ncube appeared for the State.
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