A stolen iPhone landed an ex-convict back in prison after he rejected community service, telling the magistrate that cleaning Harare is the city council's job.
Hwete's night out went sideways fast
Hwete's night out went sideways fast
- Bernard Hwete, a.k.a. Liquid Yonke, got busted over a stolen iPhone.
- He says a woman he met in the nightlife scene actually swiped it.
- Hwete grabbed the phone from her, and everything spiraled.
- His US$40 settlement offer got rejected after she learned its value.
- Hwete flat-out refused the magistrate's community-service offer.
- His reasoning was that city cleanup is Harare City Council's problem.
- That refusal earned him a 12-month sentence instead.
- Five months of that sentence got suspended.
- Harare Central Prison held 2,260 inmates by Tuesday afternoon.
- Its actual capacity is only 1,128 people.
- Hwete had only been free since finishing a drug sentence around March 2024.
- He had personally vowed never to return behind bars.
- Pathway to Reintegration Foundation partnered with the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service.
- Madzibaba Nigel Dokwani of Johanne Masowe yeChishanu donated supplies.
- Inmates received plastic shoes, toiletries, and soccer balls.
- Hwete was among those who benefited from the initiative.
