Published by the government of Zimbabwe
8 December 2008
Harare — Afrimune Records owner Mathias Bangure who is being accused of breaching the Copyright Act was further remanded to December 12 by a Harare magistrate when he appeared for trial at the Harare Magistrates' Court recently.
Bangure stood on his plea of innocence, maintaining that he had entered into a verbal contract with the complainant, Sister Flame.
Under cross-examination by Prosecutor Allen Masiya, Bangure revealed that although there was no signed agreement, they had settled on a verbal agreement pending the signature.
"We had done the work together without signatures and we did not say that I should stop working because we had not signed an agreement.
"We entered into a verbal agreement and now she is lying that I did it on my own. I distributed the copies because I was actually testing the market response as we had not agreed that I should stop the work because we had not signed the agreement," he said.
Bangure said he was not the one who pushed for the contract but it was Sister Flame, impressed by the work he was doing for other artistes.
"She saw the work I had done for other artistes and came willingly to me saying that I had to do the same with her copies.
"She actually was the one who was pushing me to take her on a tour to Brazil because we used to do business together and those days she would come to smoke at my business premises because she did not want the public to see her smoking," he said. Sister Flame however, is insisting that there was no verbal contract that was entered into.
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