Zanu-PF's Chipanga ruled offside, to pay costs

The High Court has interdicted Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary Kudzayi Chipanga from threatening war veterans with violence before ordering him to pay costs of the suit on a higher scale.

Chipanga allegedly threatened former freedom fighters with violence during an address to a group of youths, a day before a failed war veterans meeting in Harare last week. On Tuesday last week, Chipanga declared war on veterans of the liberation struggle whom he described as "sickening rabble-rousers".

Lawyers for ZNLWVA, Nyika Kanengoni and Partners, on Friday faced resistance from identified people at the Zanu-PF Headquarters in a bid to serve the urgent chamber application on Chipanga. On Saturday, the lawyers then engaged the services of the Sheriff of the High Court, Mcduff Madhega, who also had difficulty serving Cde Chipanga with a notice of the case's set down.