CHATUNGA Bellamine Mugabe was issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to appear at a Beitbridge court yesterday.
His lawyer Muchihwande Forbes Sithole said his client was undergoing a throat surgery and the warrant of arrest was just administrative.
“He is hospitalised and doctors said he would be released on Friday. We expect on Monday he should report here, where we will ask the court to possibly just warn, caution and discharge him. It’s a very minor allegation,” Sithole said.
Chatunga, who is the son of the late former Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe, was due in court to answer a charge of disorderly conduct and possession of an unspecified knife.
He was arrested on August 30 this year at a roadblock in Bubi 80km north of Beitbridge, where he allegedly had a scuffle with police officers whom he accused of delaying him while on his way to Harare.
He has disowned as fake a post on X (formerly Twitter) apologising to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga.