Bhasikiti hits Mugabe again

Expelled Mwenezi East National Assembly member Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has a fresh urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to stop the Nomination Court for a by-election in his former constituency set for July 20 this year.

Bhasikiti, through his lawyer Tendai Biti of Tendai Biti Law Chambers, is seeking to set aside Proclamation Number 7 of 2015 that set the Nomination Court date as July 20 and the by-election date as September 19, 2015.

He argued that all election-related processes should be done after July 31, when his challenge against dismissal from Zanu-PF would have been finalised.

Bhasikiti, fired last month on allegations he supported former Vice-President Joice Mujuru, had on June 25 won a High Court order stopping Mugabe from proclaiming a by-election date until the former Mwenezi East MP's case challenging his expulsion from Zanu-PF was dealt with by the courts.

Mugabe last Friday set July 20 as the date for the sitting of the nomination court for the Mwenezi East by-election to be held on September 19.

In an urgent chamber application filed at the Constitutional Court by lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara yesterday, Bhasikiti said Mugabe was in contempt of court.