NewsDay gives you live updates of RMG Independent End Time Message Church founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s judgement to be delivered today by Regional Magistrate Hosea Mujaya.
Updates by Cynthia Matonhodze/ Cecilia Kamuputa
09:35 -Michael Gumbura, a relative, says his aunts are not interested in an interview now.
09:29 – Majome says she is an interested party in this case because of an increase in rape cases, especially in her constituency.
09:17 -Judgement reserved,Court adjourned to the 31st of January.
09:14 – He arrives, all rise.
09:13 – Everyone is now seated, waiting for the prosecutor.
09:11 – Representatives from the church council arrive.
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09:07 – The court orderly now vets journalists to make sure that there is only one representative from each media house as the court room is now full.
08:59 – The court orderly jokes again that she is also well dressed but now her shoes are killing her.
08:58 – The prosecutor is yet to arrive.
08:56 – The court orderly jokes with people in the court room telling them not to use muti as she will be the one to be affected for she is walking around a lot. She claims that she is already feeling sleepy.
08:50 – Earlier on, some of the wivesobjected to having their photographs taken, shouting “Muri kutitorerei maoikicha, tinokusingisai.”
08:49 – the mood in the court is slightly tense, with some of the wives biting nails, some reading the newspapers.
08:44 – Journalists, relatives and Gumbura’s wives wait inside the court-room for the prosecutor to arrive.
08:40 – Musasa Project representatives are among the interested parties who have come to witness the judgement.
8:33 – The court orderly vets the wives as some women were claiming to be his wives so they could get into the court room.
08:30 – More of Gumbura’s wives arrive – well dressed.
08:22 – People push and shove to get into the court room.
08:20 – Harare West MP, Jessie Majome arrives.
08:16 – at Court 16, journalists, relatives and some of Gumbura’s wives wait outside the court-room for doors to open.
