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Jonathan Moyo sues government-controlled newspapers

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Jonathan Moyo, the Higher and Tertiary Education minister facing a raft of fraud allegations, has slapped two Zimpapers newspapers for a whopping $4 million over a story in which he is alleged to have abused government vehicles. Moyo’s lawsuit is targeting the Sunday Mail and Sunday News which […]

Trial of Sunday Mail trio starts

By Fungai Lupande The trial of The Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo started yesterday with chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba testifying as the first State witness. The trio is facing charges of communicating or publishing false statements prejudicial to the State. In her testimony, […]

Sunday Mail trio further remanded

By Tendai Rupapa The Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo, accused of communicating or publishing false statements prejudicial to the State, were yesterday further remanded to December 17. The prosecutor, Mrs Idah Mateke-Maromo, told the court that the docket was not yet complete since investigations were still ongoing, […]

Sunday Mail editor, reporters freed on bail

By Fungai Lupande The Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were yesterday granted $100 bail each after Harare magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe ruled that it was a mockery of the judicial system to deny them bail. The trio is facing charges of communicating or publishing false statements prejudicial […]

Zimbabwe arrests editor, reporters over elephant poaching story

By MacDonald Dzirutwe Police said on Tuesday they had arrested an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper for publishing falsehoods after reporting that a police commissioner and junior officer were involved in a spate of elephant killings. Poachers have used cyanide to kill 60 elephants in the Hwange national park in the west and […]

Sunday Mail editor, reporters arrested

By Innocent Ruwende Police have arrested The Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo following the publication of a story in the weekly’s latest edition which alleged that a syndicate comprising police officers, Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers and Asians was behind the latest spate of elephant killings […]

Zimpapers get rid of “Baba Jukwa”

HARARE – The fate of Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi has now been sealed after he was officially booted out from his position and replaced by Mabasa Sasa, the man who has been acting editor since June 2014. Kudzayi was arrested last year on allegations that he set up and ran the popular but controversial […]