6 November: Bulawayo JOSEPH NJUBALALA SIBANDA was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment (8 suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
13 November: Bulawayo JOHN RICHARD NDLOVU was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (20 months suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
14 November: Bulawayo BEKITHEMBA JOSEPH MPOFU was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (18 months suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
15 November: Bulawayo TIMOTI SIKOMBOYA NDLOVU was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (18 months suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
16 November: Bulawayo MOFFAT MPOFU was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (19 months suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
17 November: Bulawayo MYANGANA THOMAS TSHUMA was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (18 months suspended) for failing to report guerillas.
(?) January 1979 JACOB GIDEON RASHAYI (32) was sentenced to an effective prison term of 17 years on conviction of assisting guerillas who allegedly committed robberies in the Chiredzi area at the end of 1977.
14 January: Salisbury High Court JAMES JEREMIAH KAWAKA (20) was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for possessing arms of war. He had been captured in Chiduku TTL in December 1977 during a contact between guerillas and security forces.
19 February: Salisbury High Court TIKI ADAI (16) was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment on conviction of murder by common cause with a guerilla group. The court heard that Adai had undergone six weeks of guerilla training in Mozambique in 1975, when he was only 12 years old. In October 1977, when he was considered old enough to fight, he was sent into Rhodesia with a small guerilla group. In February 1978 the group ambushed an army convoy on the road from Chiredzi to the Mozambique border, resulting in the death of three security force members. Adai was wounded, captured and later treated at Chiredzi Security Hospital. Passing judgement, Sir Hugh Beadle remarked that "It is a formidable problem to know what a just sentence would be in your case. The prospect of sending you to prison is enough to fill any ordinary person with dismay." (RH 20.2.79)
