ARMED robbers pounced on an Nkankezi family in Filabusi, Matabeleland South province on Sunday and made off with property and cash totalling US$77 400.
This emerged in court when Tilton Moyo (20) appeared before Filabusi magistrate, Abednicho Ndebele, on Wednesday facing an armed robbery charge.
He was not asked to plead to the charge and was remanded in custody to July 12.
Prosecutor Shepherd Moyo told the court that on June 25 at 8:50pm, the complainant Morina Manyetu arrived home in Nkankezi in a Toyota Fortuner vehicle in the company of her husband, Shepherd Nxumalo.
Moyo and his accomplices pounced on the couple after Nxumalo disembarked from the vehicle to open the gate for Manyetu to drive in.
One of the robbers allegedly fired a shot into the air and another shot at the right rear window of the vehicle to scare off the couple.
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Manyetu was then dragged out of the vehicle by Moyo and his accomplices, taken together with her husband to their bedroom where they were made to lie down.
The robbers allegedly force-marched the couple’s daughter Sithokozile Dube and her 12-year-old son to the same room and demanded cash.
Nxumalo gave them US$8 000. The robbers then took the couple’s mobile phones whiledemanding more cash.
Manyetu then gave them US$2 000 and their daughter gave them US$20 000.
The robbers then tied the family together before driving away in the couple’s vehicle which they dumped in Zvishavane.
Investigations led to the recovery of the vehicle in Zvishavane and the arrest of Moyo in Filabusi.
Property worth US$45 000 was recovered.