{"id":8393,"date":"2025-08-21T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:49:43","slug":"bulawayo-man-stabs-twin-brother-in-fight-over-leftover-sadza-and-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=8393","title":{"rendered":"Bulawayo Man Stabs Twin Brother in Fight Over Leftover Sadza and Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BULAWAYO \u2013 A 26-year-old Iminyela man has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to stabbing his twin brother twice in the head during a violent argument over leftover isitshwala and chicken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maqhawe Ncube appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Archie Wochiwunga on physical abuse charges following the July 23 incident that left his brother, Mabutho Ncube, with serious injuries requiring hospital treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutor Audrey Kufandikanwe detailed the altercation to the court:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On that date, Maqhawe and his twin brother, Mabutho Ncube, were at their residence when an argument broke out over leftover isitshwala and chicken. In a fit of anger, the accused grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed his brother twice on the head.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court heard that the violent confrontation occurred around 7PM at their family home. Following the attack, Mabutho sustained deep cuts and was rushed to medical facilities for emergency treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police investigations led to Maqhawe&#8217;s arrest, and he has been remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News | Global News From An African Perspective\u00a92025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts BULAWAYO \u2013 A 26-year-old Iminyela man has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to stabbing his twin brother twice in the head during a violent argument&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-court-and-crime","category-court-and-crime-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}