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Khupe's alleged attacker sues Jonathan Moyo over twitter post
14 Aug 2017 at 02:25hrs | Views
MDC-T deputy youth chairperson Stewart Shakespeare Mukoyi is suing Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo and the Herald newspaper for utterances made over the recent attack on the party's VP Thokozani Khupe and her colleagues in Bulawayo.
Bulawayo24 News also carried an article title 'Khupe's attacker named' and attributed the source of the information.
Summons to the minister and the local paper by Mukoyi's lawyers Mavhunga and Associates Legal Practitioners read:
"Our client instructs that on 7 August 2017 you published a statement on your twitter account which statement read "Shakespeare Mukoyi an MDC-T Youth leader was in the group that violently attacked Thokozani Khupe, Abedinico Bhebhe, Lovemore Moyo and others."
The lawyers said Moyo proceeded to identify (by circle) a person on a picture whom he claimed was Mukoyi and yet, in actual fact, it was not him.
"Within the article you wrote that the youths, who appeared in a video that has gone viral on social media which purported that MDC-T deputy national youth Chairman Shakespeare Mukoyi appeared in Court for allegedly threatening to assault police officers."
Bulawayo24 News also carried an article title 'Khupe's attacker named' and attributed the source of the information.
Summons to the minister and the local paper by Mukoyi's lawyers Mavhunga and Associates Legal Practitioners read:
The lawyers said Moyo proceeded to identify (by circle) a person on a picture whom he claimed was Mukoyi and yet, in actual fact, it was not him.
"Within the article you wrote that the youths, who appeared in a video that has gone viral on social media which purported that MDC-T deputy national youth Chairman Shakespeare Mukoyi appeared in Court for allegedly threatening to assault police officers."
Source - newzimbabwe
