Zimbabwe: Summons Issued Against Zimpapers

TWO journalists accused of administering the rabble- rousing Baba Jukwa page have, through their lawyer, issued summons against the Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited (Zimpapers). Mxolisi Ncube and Mkhululi Chimoio are suing Zimpapers' titles, The Herald and The Sunday Mail, along with their publishers at the High Court for US$100 million in defamation damages.

Ncube and Chimoio claim they were defamed by the two State-owned publications, which linked them to the Baba Jukwa Facebook character that has been a thorn in the back side of the ruling ZANU-PF government. They argued that the reports not only affected their professional integrity, but had also cast them in bad light as they were understood by their readers to mean that both of them were "untrustworthy, dangerous saboteurs and criminally-minded terrorists who were bent on spreading alarm and despondency within the state of Zimbabwe and who were also actively involved in planning and plotting treasonous acts with the intention of over-throwing the constitutionally elected government of Zimbabwe."

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