Alleged hired guns muddle state case

This comes after key state witnesses gave contradictory evidence in court last week. As a result, Sindiso Mazibisa, the lawyer representing the accused, Ray Dokotela-Moyo, has applied to be discharged at the end of the state case at the Bulawayo magistrate's court.

The case was remanded to today, when Sikhumbuzo Nyathi, the presiding magistrate will make a ruling on the application for a discharge. Dokotela-Moyo, proprietor of Dokotela Omnibus Company, whose buses travel the Bulawayo-Gaborone route, is accused of hiring two Zimbabweans, Tinashe Marima and Mathew Moyo, to kill Sibonginkosi Moyo for allegedly frustrating his business interests in Francistown.