Form 4 pupil jailed for possessing, distributing exam papers

A FORM Four student at privately-owned Fountain College and two men from Chitungwiza were last week slapped with a six-month jail term each after they were convicted for leaking this year's Ordinary Level Commerce and Science papers.

Brian Kaundikiza (18), Takudzwa Pindirire (20) and Masimba Mlalazi (21) all from Unit N, Sekewere last Thursday convicted on their own pleas to contravening section 35(a) of the Zimbabwe School Examination Council Act when they appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Donald Ndirowei.

Prosecutor Wilson Matsika told the court that on October 30 this year Mlalazi and Pindirire illegally gained access to Ordinary Level Science papers 1 and 2 and sold them for $2 each.

It is the State case that O-Level students were due to sit for the two papers on November 10 and 17.  

The suspects were arrested on November 7 after police received a tip-off about the leak.