A dispute over a cap escalated into violence when an 18-year-old allegedly stabbed a Kuwadzana man who had reportedly taken it from one of his younger brothers.<\/p>\n
Mtandazilwa Gumede was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo charged with murder.<\/p>\n
He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court and the matter was remanded to 19 January.<\/p>\n
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Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp<\/a> | LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n The State, represented by Lawrence Gangarahwe, alleges that Gumede was at Lakers Night Club with his younger brothers when one of them approached him and reported that the now-deceased Nyasha Chagunda had snatched his cap.<\/p>\n Gumede then confronted the now-deceased, who was with the informant, about the issue.<\/p>\n During the exchange, a misunderstanding occurred, and a knife slipped from Gumede’s pocket and fell to the ground.<\/p>\n The informant blocked Gumede from picking up the knife but he (Gumede) forcefully pushed him aside.<\/p>\n He then quickly retrieved the knife from the ground and reportedly stabbed the now-deceased once in the stomach before walking away.<\/p>\n The informant attempted to follow Gumede but was unable to locate him.<\/p>\n He returned to where the now-deceased lay and heard bystanders shouting that Gumede had stabbed someone with a knife.<\/p>\n The informant tried to administer first aid to the now-deceased who had sustained a severe abdominal injury with protruding intestines.<\/p>\n Officers from ZRP Kuwadzana later arrived and the victim was taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n He succumbed to his injuries the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute over a cap escalated into violence when an 18-year-old allegedly stabbed a Kuwadzana man who had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[63,83,265,262,362,96,261,267,264,263,266,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-11706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-events","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-legal-and-judicial-affairs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-southern-africa","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-trade","18":"tag-travel","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}