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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Mary Taruvinga<\/b> –<\/p>\n

A HARARE man, Rozva Dereck Mushinyi, is suing his uncle $1 million for defamation after he labelled him as mentally ill during a family meeting.<\/p>\n

Mushinyi is suing his father\u2019s brother Ben complaining that his utterances still hurt him and degraded him in the eyes of the community.<\/p>\n

In summons filed at the High court, Mushinyi said his uncle had called him demeaning names during a family gathering after he sent his lawyers to Bikita to serve an interdict barring him and his allies from conducting a \u201ctombstone unveiling\u201d ritual on his late father\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n

He also said his uncle had insinuated that his mother was of loose morals which caused his neighbours to stigmatise him.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the 17th day of September 2021 in Nyahunda Village in Bikita, the Defendant (Ben) uttered defamatory, dehumanizing and degrading utterances about the Plaintiff at a gathering that had been organized by his other relatives,\u201d court papers read.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendant uttered the words \u201cmwana wehure\u201d meaning that I am a child of a whore and that \u201cndiri benzi\u201d (I am not mentally stable). This is extremely defamatory and degrading given the fact that my late mother was never a whore\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He says his uncle only convened the meeting to embarrass him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pained till today and I am a laughingstock in Bikita and whenever the story is been told. The utterances of the Defendant destroyed my fame and the stereotype that ordinarily attaches to whores is now haunting me, in fact my credibility was subjectively diminished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The matter is currently pending before the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Mary Taruvinga – A HARARE man, Rozva Dereck Mushinyi, is suing his uncle $1 million for defamation after he labelled him as mentally ill during a family meeting. Mushinyi is suing his father\u2019s brother Ben complaining that his utterances still hurt him and degraded him in the eyes of the community. 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