Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s neighbour has been fined for letting his dogs hunt on the leader’s property, a state-owned newspaper reports.<\/p>\n
A court ordered Michael Pazarangu to pay $50 (\u00a330) or spend 30 days in jail, The Herald newspaper reports.<\/p>\n
He was accused of letting his “unmuzzled ferocious dogs roam freely” on the president’s private property in the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n
Mr Mugabe, 90, has been in power since Zimbabwe became independent in 1980.<\/p>\n
He was re-elected president last year, defeating his long-standing rival Morgan Tsvangirai.<\/p>\n
Mr Pazarangu changed his initial plea of not guilty and admitted the offence, The Herald reports.<\/p>\n
“This matter has attracted a lot of publicity and has negatively affected me and my family,” Mr Pazarangu is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
The court heard that his dogs had killed a deer in May 2013 on Mr Mugabe’s property in Harare’s upmarket Borrowdale suburb.<\/p>\n
The dogs were said to have entered through an opening in the fence separating the two properties.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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