Former Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) audit
executive Dr Cleopatra Mutisi will stand trial next year at the High Court on
allegations of assaulting to death her 13-year-old nephew on suspicion that he
stole US$70.
She is an estranged wife of Brigadier-General Francis
Mutisi. She is facing murder charges. Allegations are that she participated in
the fatal assault of her nephew, Tafara Matanhire, whom she accused of stealing
money meant for paying people that were repairing a borehole at her Borrowdale
home.
Mutisi allegedly teamed up with her alleged accomplices,
Tafara Frank Gusha and Tafadzwa Shayanewako, who were manning her residence.
The three were arrested in November 2012. Cleopatra allegedly took her nephew
to Hatcliffe Police Post and asked the police to assault the boy until he
confesses but the police refused.
It is alleged that she went home and locked the boy up for
two days without food or water before ordering Gusha and Shayanewako to assault
him and recover the money. Mutisi allegedly joined in assaulting the boy before
leaving for her rural home in Maramba. The boy died and she allegedly made a
false police report that he had been assaulted by unknown assailants at school.
The post mortem revealed that he died from severe head
injuries and subdural haemorrhage. Meanwhile, Brig-Gen Mutisi has filed for
divorce at the High Court citing that Cleopatra is violent and abusive, a
situation, that has made life unbearable at their home. He added that she has
cheated on him with different men. At the centre of the divorce is a wrangle
for properties which Brig-Gen Mutisi said he solely acquired while stationed in
the United States of America.
“The defendant has refused plaintiff his conjugal rights
since October 2016, and without this intimacy the marriage has basically
irretrievably broken down,” read the summons.
“During the subsistence of the marriage, the plaintiff
assisted the defendant financially and materially to secure a decent education
being a first degree, a Master’s degree and a PHD from his resources.” Herald
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