Zimbabwean fined for Mugabe death joke

HARARE: A Zimbabwe court fined a man
$ 150 (120 euro) for joking that President Robert Mugabe had died, a daily newspaper reported yesterday. Cleapas Manangazira, 34, was convicted for undermining the authority of the president in a court in central city Gweru. Manangazira joked to police about Mugabe’s death when the bus he was traveling in stopped at a tollgate on the road to Gweru, according to the privately-owned NewsDay. “Why are you police officers sitting here. Don’t you know the President is dead,” prosecutors quoted Manangazira as saying. “We are coming from putting a tombstone on Mugabe’s grave. Did you hear me people? Mugabe is dead.”