ROY NYABVURE

versus

ZIMBABWE NEWSPAPERS (1980) LTD

and

THE EDITOR IN CHIEF ZIMBABWE NEWSPAPERS (1980) LTD

and

RUTENDO MAPFUMO

HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE

MUZOFA J

HARARE, 27 and 28 June 2018 & 11 July 2018

Civil Trial

B Mutiro, for the plaintiff

O.T Gasva, for the defendant

                        MUZOFA J: At the close of the plaintiff’s case the defendant applied for absolution from the instance.

            The plaintiff issued summons out of this court for defamatory damages in the sum of $650 000. It was alleged that the defendant in its publication in the Herald newspaper of

1 March 2013 published and distributed a features article with a photograph of the plaintiff which was defamatory. Plaintiff alleged that the article taken in totality with the photograph depicted him