{"id":30529,"date":"2011-12-02T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30529"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:06:47","slug":"zimbabwe-retired-colonel-launches-defamation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30529","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Retired colonel launches defamation suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Zimbabwe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwean<\/a> newspaper is facing a <a title=\"IFEX : Retired colonel launches defamation suit against local newspaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/zimbabwe\/2011\/12\/01\/masvingo_mirror_sued\/\" target=\"_blank\">defamation suit<\/a> from a retired colonel.\u00a0<a title=\"ZANU PF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zanupf.org.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZANU-PF<\/a>\u00a0member\u00a0Claudius Makova is suing local paper the Masvingo Mirror\u00a0for USD 100,000 after it published a story referring to Makova&#8217;s alleged interests in Bikita Minerals, the country&#8217;s sole lithium producer.\u00a0Makova claimed the defamatory statements lay in\u00a0references to him as &#8220;stupid and greedy,&#8221; and said his reputation had been damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Zimbabwean newspaper is facing a defamation suit from a retired colonel.\u00a0ZANU-PF\u00a0member\u00a0Claudius Makova is suing local paper the Masvingo Mirror\u00a0for USD 100,000 after it published a story referring to Makova&#8217;s alleged interests in Bikita Minerals, the country&#8217;s sole lithium producer.\u00a0Makova claimed the defamatory statements lay in\u00a0references to him as &#8220;stupid and greedy,&#8221; and said his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[540,584,585],"tags":[4048,165,4049,727,1575,7380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30642,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions\/30642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}