Zanu PF activist jailed for assaulting MDC-T councillor

A Silobela-based Zanu PF youth, Ranganai Kureta (28), was on Monday slapped with a three-month jail term for assaulting an MDC-T councillor, Willard Moyo, from the same area.

Kureta, who is Zanu PF youth vice-chairperson for Gobo ward in Silobela, was however spared jail after magistrate Sithembiso Ncube gave him an option to pay a $40 fine for kicking Moyo in the mouth and striking his head with an empty bottle.

The court heard the incident occurred on April 15 when Moyo and three other MDC-T members asked the driver of a bus they were travelling in to deviate from his route and drop them off at Machipisa business centre.

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