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Paper's appeal goes ahead
29/11/2003 18:26 - (SA)
Harare - A judge in Zimbabwe on Saturday refused to rule in favour of the state to have a case by the Daily News, which is fighting for its right to resume publishing, dismissed, the paper's legal adviser said.
Lawyers for the paper, the country's most popular daily and the only alternative to the state-run Herald and Chronicle, had sought the enforcement of an earlier court ruling allowing it to continue publishing.
But earlier this week a government lawyer applied to have the case dismissed. He argued that the court did not have the authority to enforce the favourable court order.
"He (Judge Selo Nare) ruled that the court has jurisdiction," Gugulethu Moyo said. She said the judge then proceeded to hear the Daily News case, but reserved judgment to an uspecified time.
The Daily News is a fierce critic of President Robert Mugabe's government.
It was shut down by armed police in September after the Supreme Court ruled it was operating illegally by not being registered with a state-appointed media commission.
- AFP
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