The son of Zimbabwe's former leader Mugabe has been deported from the country for showing a toy pistol.

Bellarmin Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has been fined a massive amount by a South African court and ordered to be deported from the country. This punishment was imposed on him under charges of intimidating a person by showing a toy pistol and violating South African immigration laws.

Chatunga Mugabe, who is in his late twenties, and another individual were arrested last February following an incident where an employee at a luxury house in Johannesburg, where Mugabe was staying, was shot and injured. Both, who had been held in remand since their arrest, pleaded guilty to all charges based on an agreement reached with the complainant. However, clear information on how Mugabe violated South African immigration laws has not been revealed, and it is stated that the charge of showing a toy pistol is a separate incident unrelated to the shooting of the aforementioned employee.

According to the court ruling, Mugabe was fined Rand 400,000 (US$24,100) for the offense of showing a toy pistol and an additional Rand 200,000 for violating immigration laws. Meanwhile, Tobias Matonhodze, who was arrested with him, has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges such as attempting to shoot and kill the employee and obstructing justice. After serving his sentence, he will also be deported from South Africa.

The investigating officer confirmed last week at the Alexandra Magistrate's Court that Rand 250,000 has already been paid as compensation to the employee who sustained two gunshot wounds to his back in this shooting, and another Rand 150,000 is due to be paid in the future. However, the actual firearm used in the shooting has not yet been found. Chatunga's father, Robert Mugabe, who is facing this incident, ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years after gaining independence from Britain in 1980, and was ousted in a military coup in 2017, dying in a Singapore hospital in 2019 at the age of 95.