HWANGE – The State’s case in the trial of National Healing co-minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu over Gukurahundi statements yesterday suffered a dent after witnesses contradicted each other.
The arresting officer Detective Constable Maxwell Moyo of Lupane, Liberty Manzini of Lupane Police Internal Security Intelligence and a villager, Melusi Tshuma, testified, but contradicted each other on the exact words allegedly uttered by the minister.
The State’s case further went into disarray when Tshuma, who claimed that he was illiterate, disowned the statement he allegedly made to the police.
That prompted Mzila-Ndlovu’s lawyers, Matshobana Ncube assisted by Nikiwe Ncube, to label the three State witnesses “pathetic liars who concocted evidence to fix Mzila”.