Tekere trial ends
NZPA-Reuter Salisbury. The murder trial of the Zimbabwean Manpower l Planning Minister (Mr Edgar! Tekere) ended yesterday with Stale prosecutors arguing that the Minister had no right to the immunity he has claimed under a whitedrafted 1975 law.
Judge John Pitman reserved judgment for an unspecified period as the 13 days of hearings at the Zimbabwe High Court drew to a close.
Mr Tekere and seven; youthful guerrilla body-! guards have pleaded not; guilty to the murder of a: white farm manager, Gerald Adams, aged 68, and the at-i tempted murder of five! black soldiers on Stamford Farm, near Salisbury, on August 4.
Their defence team, led by a British lawyer. Mr Louis Blom-Cooper, Q.C. said they should be acquitted because the Indemnity and Compensation Act 1975. protected Government leaders acting “for the suppression of terrorism." But the State Prosecutor (Mr Christopher Glaum) told the court: “What they were reacting to was not terrorism, therefore they are not entitled to protection under the act.”
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