HARARE - Zanu PF’s Director of Information, Farai Marapira, stresses that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party do not condone the violence allegedly committed by Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe.
He insists both accused must face the full force of South African law.
"This is not to say we are implicating anyone as the case is still under investigation. And we have full trust in the South African legal system to chase this matter to its correct end," he said
Bellarmine, the second son of the late former president Robert Mugabe, returned to court on Tuesday after a brief appearance last week on charges of attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice.
The charges relate to the shooting of a gardener at the Mugabe property in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
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Political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya hopes the case will run its full course.
He said that Bellarmine’s mother, Grace Mugabe, once left the country before her own case concluded.
The Mugabe sons are no strangers to the law.
Late last year, Robert Junior, Mugabe’s eldest, was arrested and fined in Harare after being caught with cannabis.
- Pindai Dube filed this report.