Zimbabwe teenager in hot soup for stealing from Vice President’ s wife

Handcuffed, Succeed Mukaro (18) of Domboshava, a semi-urban area north of the capital Harare stands accused of breaking into a phone shop belonging Vice President' s wife

HARARE, A man from Domboshava has been convicted by Harare provincial magistrate Ethel Chichera for stealing cellphones worth US$15 000 from a shop owned by Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi Chiwenga.

Succeed Mukaro, 18, pleaded guilty to unlawful entry charges after he broke into Colonel Chiwenga’s shop in Borrowdale. Mukaro will be sentenced today.

The theft happened on 31 May at around 7pm.

Mukaro was caught selling the phones.