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Zim man fined over fake ID
13 Mar 2016 at 07:20hrs | Views
A 39-year-old Zimbabwean national was recently fined P500 for possessing an illegally obtained Botswana identity card that enabled him to stay for close to two decades and find employment as a groundsman.
Gadzanani Mogweu from the border town of Plumtree in the neighboring country was convicted on his own plea of guilty on a single count of giving false information to a person employed in the public service.
His crime came to light when he went to renew his ID in 2014 but failed to produce all the required documents.
Mogweu was initially sentenced to a three-year jail term wholly suspended for three years on condition that he does not commit any offense in the country.
Appearing before Francistown senior magistrate Dumisani Basupi recently, remorseful Mogweu did not waste the court's time by denying the charges leveled against him.
He admitted that he fraudulently obtained the ID through illegal means sometime in September 1999.
While at the Department of Civil and National Registration offices where he was being interrogated, Mogweu confessed that he gave false information to the effect that he was born in Francistown when he was in fact born and bred in Plumtree.
Sentencing Mogweu, Basupi expressed displeasure at the rate at which foreigners are obtaining national documents through fraudulent means.
Gadzanani Mogweu from the border town of Plumtree in the neighboring country was convicted on his own plea of guilty on a single count of giving false information to a person employed in the public service.
His crime came to light when he went to renew his ID in 2014 but failed to produce all the required documents.
Mogweu was initially sentenced to a three-year jail term wholly suspended for three years on condition that he does not commit any offense in the country.
Appearing before Francistown senior magistrate Dumisani Basupi recently, remorseful Mogweu did not waste the court's time by denying the charges leveled against him.
He admitted that he fraudulently obtained the ID through illegal means sometime in September 1999.
While at the Department of Civil and National Registration offices where he was being interrogated, Mogweu confessed that he gave false information to the effect that he was born in Francistown when he was in fact born and bred in Plumtree.
Sentencing Mogweu, Basupi expressed displeasure at the rate at which foreigners are obtaining national documents through fraudulent means.
Source - Byo24News
