via Communiqué: AG given until Friday to clarify authenticity of opposing affidavit – Misa Zimbabwe 11 March 2015
Chris Mhike who is representing MISA-Zimbabwe in its Constitutional Court application challenging the constitutionality of criminal defamation has written to the Attorney -General (AG) Prince Machaya asking him to clarify the authenticity of the opposing affidavit purportedly filed by him in the pending case.
In a letter dated 11 March 2015, Mhike gave the AG until this Friday the 13th to clarify the matter at hand saying this was of urgent importance as that would guide him and his clients on how to proceed and prepare the requisite answering affidavit.
This comes in the wake of reports in The Herald edition of 11 March 2015 quoting the AG and the Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Professor Jonathan Moyo disowning the opposing affidavit in question.
The AG who is the third respondent in the matter, purportedly filed the affidavit on behalf of Professor Moyo and the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa who are the respective first and second respondents. (visit MISA-Zimbabwe’s earlier communiqué at www.misazim.com for detailed background information).
MISA-Zimbabwe is the first applicant while journalists Nqaba Matshazi, Sydney Saize and Godwin Mangudya, are the second, third and fourth respective applicants in the matter. The fifth applicant is Roger Deane Stringer an independent publishing consultant.
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