The fate of Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe’s driver Witness Dube hangs in the balance as the magistrate who is supposed to make a ruling in his application for refusal of remand is now based in Hwange and her return was uncertain. Dube allegedly wrote insulting words on Zanu PF’s anti-sanctions campaign forms in Sizinda suburb.
Lizwe Jamela of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights who is representing Dube, yesterday confirmed that they were waiting for the magistrate, Rose Dube, to deliver her ruling in an application for refusal of further remand made prior to her transfer to Hwange three months ago.
“We are just waiting for the day she will deliver her ruling. Besides that, the matter will only remain being postponed time and again,” Jamela said. Dube (34) of Magwegwe had not been asked to plead to criminal insult.
He is out on $50 bail.
Charges against him are that on March 3 at about 2:45pm, Dube went to Richards Shopping Centre in Sizinda.
He went to the anti-sanctions petition desk which was manned by Kudakwashe Java from the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment and Trinity Bushe.
Dube was handed an anti sanctions petition form to fill in his particulars and handed it back to the pair. After receiving the form, Dube allegedly wrote the insulting words claiming it was his name in front of Java and Bushe.
The pair asked for his name, but he maintained that it was his real name.
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However, the pair felt offended by what Dube had written on the forms and made a police report, leading to his arrest.
Investigations were carried out to establish his real name and it was discovered that he had written a fake name.
Dube is also facing charges of allegedly assaulting a member of the MDC-T youth assembly at the offices of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union during the MDC-T congress to choose youth leaders held in March last year.
The matter is awaiting trial before the same magistrate.
