12 June: Bulawayo Magistrates Court Three unnamed juvenile girls convicted of attempting to leave the country for guerilla training were each sentenced to 3 years imprisonment (suspended).
3 July: Bulawayo DUKE MASUKU was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment, JAMES SHUMBA to 8 years and JIMMY NDLOVU to 4 years for recruiting for guerilla training.
20 July: Bulawayo ZIMENDE KHUMALO was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment (2 suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
1 August: Salisbury Regional Court Two brothers from Chinamora TTL, JOHANNES and ROBERT TOZIVEPI, were sentenced to 5½ years (3 suspended) for failing to report guerillas. They had allegedly helped to plant a landmine which was subsequently detonated by a police vehicle in March 1978.
9 August: High Court, Salisbury A 16 year-old-boy, JERRY MUSADZIRUMA, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for possessing arms of war. He had been captured with three other guerillas at Chiunze kraal, Wedza TTL, in November 1977. The court was told that these three were now "believed to be actively assisting us with the ceasefire" and were part of the security forces. The accused, however, stated that he and his comrades had been assaulted by African soldiers at Wedza Police camp after their capture.
5 September: High Court, Salisbury MUZI TAWUNDI MUYAMBO, a 70-year-old foreman on Ombersley Farm, Chipinga, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his involvement in the murder of his employer, Mr. J.T. Henry. Muyambo, who is already serving a 7 year sentence imposed in February for failing to report guerillas, was brought from prison to stand trial on this new charge. The judge ordered the two sentences to run concurrently. The accused, who had known Mr. Henry as a child and had been "boss-boy" at the farm for about 20 years, allegedly directed his employer into a guerilla ambush in December 1977. A witness told the court that after Mr. Henry's death, he, the accused and a number of other farm employees had been arrested and taken to Chipinga for interrogation by the police. Meanwhile, the police had returned to the farm and burned down the huts belonging to the African labour force, destroying all their belongings.
6 September: Salisbury Regional Court Two employees of Wilshaven Farm, Mtoko, BITON ARADON and PHINEAS SUNDAY, were each sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for failing to report guerillas who had planted landmines in roads near the farm in April. Mr. D. Courtney, owner of Wilshaven Farm, had been killed in an explosion.
13 October WHISKY TENNIS, BEANS KANIKA, KENNETH ENOS, EDWARD DZAMONDA, SANDARAKI CHESANI and WINGIRORI TAWARA were all sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for failing to report guerillas on a farm in the Shamva area where they were employed. Allegedly as a result of their action, their white employer was killed by guerillas.
