{"id":202385,"date":"2025-07-14T02:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mahere-wins-u-s-100k-defamation-claim-against-kukurigo-owner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:23:54","slug":"zimbabwe-mahere-wins-u-s-100k-defamation-claim-against-kukurigo-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mahere-wins-u-s-100k-defamation-claim-against-kukurigo-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mahere Wins U.S.$100k Defamation Claim Against Kukurigo Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">LAWYER Fadzayi Mahere has won a US$100,000 defamation claim against journalist Edmund Kudzayi, whom she sued in 2022 after he accused her of dating a married businessman, Tinashe Murapata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kudzayi got in trouble over a story he published on his online platform Kukurigo, alleging that the top lawyer had caused the collapse of Murapata&#8217;s marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">High Court judge Justice Joel Mambara granted the order, ruling that Kudzayi should pay the claimed damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Whereupon, after reading documents filed of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWYER Fadzayi Mahere has won a US$100,000 defamation claim against journalist Edmund Kudzayi, whom she sued in 2022 after he accused her of dating a married businessman, Tinashe Murapata. Kudzayi got in trouble over a story he published on his online platform Kukurigo, alleging that the top lawyer had caused the collapse of Murapata&#8217;s marriage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8667,7356,51861,11225,257,12472,254,51860,6552,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-defamation","tag-kukurigo","tag-mahere","tag-news","tag-owner","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-100k","tag-wins","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}