Illegal Borrowdale billboard: Trial deferred  to May 9

The trial of two Harare businessmen who erected an illegal billboard denouncing a property developing company has been deferred to May 9 at the request of their new lawyer Gwinyai Mharapara.

Mharapara, who took over from Tendai Biti, pleaded for more time to familiarise himself with the matter while waiting for the former to renounce the agency.

Magistrate Munashe Chibanda deferred the matter to May 9 for trial although the State had insisted on going to trial saying the latest application was a delaying tactic.

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