Zim man pleads for mercy

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

FRANCISTOWN: The dire consequences of poverty have forced a Zimbabwean man to smuggle fragments of an elephant tusk to Botswana in order to feed his suffering family, the court heard yesterday.

The Zimbabwean, Ronald Mujaji told Magistrate Kaveri Kapeko when he appeared for mitigation.

Mujaji was found by police in possession of 19 pieces of an elephant tusk on January 24 at Nzano Shopping Mall following a tip-off.

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