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