A ZIMBABWEAN High Court has charged a former top politician with the 1994 murder of a man whose decapitated head was found in his car six years ago. Faber Chidarikire, who was a powerful figure in the ruling ZANU-PF party and mayor of the town of Chinhoyi, told police in 1994 the head belonged to a pedestrian he had knocked down in an accident. But after the mayor was charged in 1999 with the murder of a 12-year-old girl in 1987, the head was exhumed and pathologists concluded that it had been deliberately sliced from the body. – AFP