Kasukuwere take on Team Lacoste

Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere has accused the State media of being an appendage of a faction of the ruling party, which produced a controversial secret dossier dubbed Blue Ocean Strategy, a purported strategy to unseat President Robert Mugabe.

The document, which rattled Zanu PF officials in June this year, allegedly discussed ways Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa could take over power from Mugabe, while decimating the rival G40 faction.  

In a $7 million defamation lawsuit filed against Zimpapers and its reporters, Kasukuwere accuses the State-controlled papers of printing lies about him in an effort to give one faction an upper hand in the Zanu PF succession politics.

In his summons, Kasukuwere said The Sunday Mail and The Herald had on various occasions written articles titled Spotlight on housing allocation graft, President grills Kasukuwere and Stands saga turns nasty, which were all defamatory and aimed at ending his political career.