Mudenda offside, Mutasa argues

Former minister Didymus Mutasa has described Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda's decision to expel him from the House of Assembly as absurd and lacking in common sense.

In an application filed together with Temba Mliswa, who has also been expelled from Parliament following the pair's disputed expulsion from Zanu-PF, the two man are seeking a court order stopping the holding of by-elections in the Headlands and Hurungwe constituencies that they have been representing.

Mutasa and Mliswa have cited Mudenda, President Robert Mugabe and chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Rita Makarau as the respondents in the application.

In their heads of argument, the two said Mudenda did not follow the proper constitutional procedures while handling expulsion.