Majome sues Zimpapers for $300 000

Harare West MP Jessie Majome (MDC-T) has taken State-run media group Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) to the High Court demanding $300 000 in damages following the latter’s publication of an article which the legislator said impaired her dignity in society and in the world.

Majome, a lawyer by profession, and also the chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, said the article titled “Independence Day is coming”, which was published on April 11 this year, contained some information which was highly defamatory of her.

Majome said the words in the context of the article were wrongful and defamatory of her person in that they were intended and were understood by readers of the newspaper to mean she is “unpatriotic, immature, disloyal, naïve, petty and generally unfit to be a national political leader”.

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