former Bulawayo deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, who was fired following a High Court ruling declaring his election flawed because of a previous conviction, has won the appeal against both conviction and sentence on the criminal charge.
High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa last year nullified Kambarami’s election as ward 3 councillor after political pressure group, 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust, sought an order nullifying his election based on his conviction on charges of theft of an electric cord in 2018.
Following his removal from his deputy mayoral and councillor posts last year, Kambarami through his lawyer Maqhawe Mpofu of Samp Mlaudzi and Partners filed an appeal against both conviction and sentence at the High Court.
In his judgment yesterday, Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese nullified the conviction and sentence.
In challenging the conviction and sentence, Kambarami submitted that the court erred in convicting and sentencing him on the matter by taking a casual approach to the guilty plea he proffered.
