Set-back for opposition parties

Pro-democracy and opposition political groups seeking to have the High Court overturn the police ban on demonstration in central Harare will have to wait a little longer after the court deferred hearing to September 27.

Judge president George Chiweshe postponed the hearing to allow the group's to file their heads of arguments.

The parties had on Friday filed an urgent chamber High Court application in a bid to have a swift hearing on the ban imposed last week by police ahead of nationwide demonstrations that had been organised by 18 political parties under the banner of NERA.