Indecent party students convicted

FIFTEEN  college students arrested at a indecent party at a private home in Westgate, Harare, three months ago, are likely to walk away with community service sentences after being convicted of a lesser offence of public nuisance.

Harare magistrate Takundwa Mtetwa yesterday convicted the delinquent juveniles on their own pleas of guilty and ordered that they be vetted for community service before they are sentenced today.

The teenagers, who are students from different private colleges in the capital, were arrested on May 19 at a noisy pool party while wearing skimpy clothes and swimming costumes as they celebrated their colleague Sasha Simone Museta's belated birthday.

"I find you guilty on your own plea and therefore order you to go to the community services department for assessment before I sentence you," Mtetwa said.

Museta is jointly charged with Staicy Makombe, Memory Chasara, Marian Madamombe, Shamiso Kadzinga, Thoriso Chisaira, Keshel Magaso, Tatenda Maponga, Kundishora Munashe, Isaac Kuda Katsande, Brendon Mahembe, Sheon Matuku, Elvis Musika, Juliet Phiri and Masimba Mudzingwa.

Early this month police  in Bulawayo  arrested 224 pupils for conducting a Vuzu party at Umguza Rest Camp on the outskirts of the city.

Of late, school going children have been holding Vuzu parties where they engage in sexual activities, alcohol and drug abuse.

The 224 were later released into the custody of their parents.