Jonathan Moyo demands $4 million from Zim papers

Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has filed a $4 million lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers), accusing the Sunday Mail and Sunday News of defaming him in an article about an alleged vehicle scandal.

The article giving rise to the lawsuit was published at the weekend by the Sunday Mail and the Sunday News under the headline Prof Moyo in vehicle scandal.

In the lawsuit, Moyo cited Sunday Mail investigative editor, Brian Chitemba, and his editor, Mabasa Sasa, as well as Sunday News editor, Limukani Ncube, as respondents.

Moyo said on October 24, Information ministry secretary, George Charamba, issued a statement in a direct response to the defamatory allegations "refuting the allegations and showing them to be false and misleading and inaccurate in their material respect".