Veritas loses bid to conduct voter education

PARLIAMENTARY and civic rights watchdog, Veritas Zimbabwe, has lost its bid to conduct voter education this year after its application was dismissed on the basis of being “fatally and incurably defective”.

In his judgment delivered on Wednesday this week, High Court judge Justice Owen Tagu said he could not delve into the merits of the Veritas’ application since the civil rights watchdog had brought the matter before the court on a “wrong form”.

“In casu the form used by the applicant is, with greatest respect not Form 29B.

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