Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, has escaped a custodial sentence after the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court imposed fines totalling R600,000 for pointing a toy gun and violating South Africa’s Immigration Act. Mugabe was sentenced to a fine of R400,000 or 24 months’ imprisonment for the toy-gun offence, and an additional R200,000 or 18 months’ imprisonment for being in the country illegally. He is expected to pay the fines and will be escorted by…

North-West businessman Suleiman Carrim will not appear before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday after being confined to bed following a heart attack. The commission, which wrapped up the testimony of suspended Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Umashi Dhlamini on Tuesday, has confirmed there will be no witness on Wednesday. Hearings will instead resume on Thursday with a new witness. Evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson told the commission that Carrim, who had been scheduled to testify this month,…

Leader of anti-immigration pressure group March and March, Jacinta Ngobese, believes Black South Africans were better off under apartheid than under the democratic government. Ngobese led a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, where the group demanded the mass deportation of foreign nationals who are in the country unlawfully.Ngobese accused the democratic government of, among other things, ignoring the plight of citizens, as well as gaslighting them by labelling calls for immigration control as xenophobic. She said…