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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Thursday 28 March 2024

Judge fails to appear for ‘good sex’ Twitter case

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has failed to turn up for the trial of a Harare socialite accused of insulting her, resulting in him walking away from court a free man. A report on the Bulawayo24 site notes that Taona Shadaya was charged after reportedly retweeting a message from a supposedly fake Chigumba Twitter account in August. The message read; ‘I can't wait for the elections fiasco to come to an end. I could do with a holiday and some good sex. My body needs a break.’ Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa dismissed the matter after prosecutor Peter Kachirika conceded that ‘the state failed to bring the complainant’.