Zanu-PF's witchcraft accused trial continues

The trial of top Zanu-PF officials accused of trading witchcraft allegations against each other continued last week in Mutare with the part's chief exhumer of fallen heroes narrating the chilling account in which war veterans leader Joseph Chinotimba and 4 others were going to die mysteriously.

Jimmy Motsi, the famous traditional healer who recently made headlines when he led the exhumation process of fallen heroes at a disused mineshaft in Mt Darwin early this year, told the court he was offered $7 00 and fertiliser by Zanu-PF Murambinda district coordinating committee chairman Zanyika Machokoto as payment for killing the 5 Buhera based senior Zanu-PF members.

The court heard Machokoto and his wife wanted Chinotimba, former Agriculture minister Kumbirai Kangai, Buhera North MP William Mtomba, Kenneth Mwanditurira and Tapiwa Zengeya Machokoto dead. But the couple has since denied the charge.