via Ministers sue Mliswa, Newsday for US$80m 01 October 2014
INFORMATION Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and his cabinet counterpart Saviour Kasukuwere will hit Hurungwe East legislator, Themba Mliswa, and Newsday newspaper with lawsuits totalling US$80 million for defamation.
Jonathan Samkange of Samkange and Ventures said he has been instructed to act on behalf of Moyo and the Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Kasukuwere, and file defamation charges against Mliswa and the Newsday, a daily publication of the Alpha Media Holdings.
According to Samkange, both ministers have filed separate lawsuits against Mliswa and the Newsday to the tune of US$20 million.
“I shall be filing soon on behalf of the two ministers who feel that their rights and image in society has been denigrated by the series of articles that came out quoting Cde Mliswa,” said Samukange.
“The articles were false, defamatory and malicious in the sense that the two are not ‘gay’ and the President could not have possibly appointed them if they were gay.
“Don’t forget the President regards gays as worse than dogs and pigs. To suggest that these two Cabinet ministers who are also members of the Politburo and Central Committee are gay is seriously insulting and intended to humiliate the two.”
The articles come as Zanu PF, the party they both belong to, is involved in factional fights over who should take over from President Robert Mugabe when he retires.
Zanu PF is preparing to hold an elective congress in December where a fresh leadership is set to be elected although Mugabe is likely to go unchallenged.
Kasukuwere and Moyo have taken issue with a September 29 Newsday article headlined ‘Jonathan Moyo is CIA,’ and another one on 30 September headlined, ‘Mliswa Labels Rivals Gay Gangsters.’
The daily also carried another article on 1 October 2014 headlined, ‘Mugabe faces gay gangsters.’
NewZimbabwe.com is reliably informed that two more publications will be sued for alleged defamation by the same cabinet ministers in the next few days.
COMMENTS
hey hey….dog eat dog…..what a wonderful outcome for these degenerates…
Childish bunch just like kids in a playground , put them in the ring and let them fight to the death rather than waste our time.
“INFORMATION Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and his cabinet counterpart Saviour Kasukuwere will hit Hurungwe East legislator, Themba Mliswa, and Newsday newspaper with lawsuits totalling US$80 million for defamation.”
This is interesting again. Clearly it never rains, it pours for the renegade, motor-mouth thug. Zuro ndizuro akatambidzwa gwati rembama namai yonini. Then nhasi mukadzi kumba asati atombopedza kutova mazvimbo ezimbama vamwe vodavo mallion kubva kumunhu umwe chetewo.
Uzvaaa, regayi zvikazhane!
Why not make it $548 million or $279 million ?? While you’re about it you pompous arrogant farting village idiots. Pamberi mob justice. Viva street action by y.o.z.a. youth of zim arise. Pasi chiyangwa makandiwa zhuwao
We may yet be grateful to Professor Moyo whom I dislike.Just because he has caused chaos in the Zanu ranks I have to look a bit closer. I don’t know what his intentions are. I do know him. I had a lot of respect for his late sister and her white husband who I considered friends.I had respect for his articles which were very enlightening during those days. Temba on the other hand I despise. Just like his uncles he is a leach.
The only way that Zanys think they can make a dollar is by suing each other.Go to your stolen farms,produce crops and create employment like u promised the electorate.
They are behaving like hollywood stars suing each other . I wonder why mugabe is not kicking moyo out nechigay chake asi mudhara anochayawo here or his son . That man is a pig