MONDAY, 11.30PM:
A STATE witness in the treason trial of Zanu-Ndonga leader Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole on Monday presented documents to show that the opposition leader wrote out cheques to Philemon Fernando and William Namakonya, both convicted of attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
Assistant commissioner Zachius Nyathi said he led a team of investigators who searched Sithole’s household in October 1995. Cheques, video and audio casettes and many other papers were among the documents confiscated by police. Among the cheques discovered was one for Z$400 and two for Z$10 000 made out to Fernando, and a returned cheque made out to Namakonya. The audio cassettes are said to contain conversations between Sithole and members of the Mozambican rebel movement Renamo, with whom he is said to have corraborated in training soldiers in Mozambique.
The State, represented by chief prosecutor Augustine Chikumira, alleges that Sithole committed acts of terrorism, unlawfully possessed firearms and conspired to kill Mugabe. Sithole has pleaded not guilty.
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