The
applicant lives, or sometimes lives, in the border town of Beitbridge at Number
854 Dulibadzimu Township. He owns, or has unlimited access to, a Toyota
Quantum vehicle registration number XYX 505 GP. It should be noted that
the vehicle is registered in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. On 21
January 2013, the applicant ...
The
applicant lives, or sometimes lives, in the border town of Beitbridge at Number
854 Dulibadzimu Township. He owns, or has unlimited access to, a Toyota
Quantum vehicle registration number XYX 505 GP. It should be noted that
the vehicle is registered in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. On 21
January 2013, the applicant loaded the said vehicle with 11 passengers who all
did not have passports. Seven of them were children while 4 of them were
adults. He admitted in court that he knew that those passengers did not
have travel documents when he assisted them to exit Zimbabwe to South
Africa. He, however, ran out of luck and was intercepted and arrested by
police before accomplishing his mission.
He
appeared in court at Beitbridge the following day and pleaded guilty. The
trial court took into account what the accused told it in mitigation. The
fact that the accused was a first offender who pleaded guilty was also taken
into account.
