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Two men arrested for drawing Grace Mugabe cuddling Gono's private parts
07 Feb 2011 at 16:49hrs | Views
Frustrated Zimbabweans seem to have discovered a new hobby in ridiculing the aging President Mugabe and his family.
Two men from the border town of Plumtree, a gateway to Botswana, had the audacity of drawing caricatures of Zimbabwe's extravagant first lady, Grace Mugabe cuddling his long suspected lover's private parts, Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono.
The pair - Blessed Gay Phiri, a former police officer, and Mxolisi Tshabalala were arrested for possessing subversive material which court records reveal they had received in the form of bank notes from an unknown suspect.
Several bank notes depicted the aging Mugabe standing with his young wife, Grace, and Gono, Mugabe's personal banker, while Grace was depicted in the cartoon holding Gono's private parts with a wide smile.
Surprisingly, Phiri, who was nabbed on 18 January while showing off the notes to a group of friends was not formally charged with undermining the authority or insulting president or his immediate family when he appeared in court last Friday (February 4).
The two men are currently out on a $50 bail each and scheduled to appear on March 2.
Two men from the border town of Plumtree, a gateway to Botswana, had the audacity of drawing caricatures of Zimbabwe's extravagant first lady, Grace Mugabe cuddling his long suspected lover's private parts, Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono.
The pair - Blessed Gay Phiri, a former police officer, and Mxolisi Tshabalala were arrested for possessing subversive material which court records reveal they had received in the form of bank notes from an unknown suspect.
Several bank notes depicted the aging Mugabe standing with his young wife, Grace, and Gono, Mugabe's personal banker, while Grace was depicted in the cartoon holding Gono's private parts with a wide smile.
Surprisingly, Phiri, who was nabbed on 18 January while showing off the notes to a group of friends was not formally charged with undermining the authority or insulting president or his immediate family when he appeared in court last Friday (February 4).
The two men are currently out on a $50 bail each and scheduled to appear on March 2.
Source - Byo24NEWS
