Ray Joseph Kaukonde v/s NewsDay

• Zanu PF Mashonaland East provincial chairman, Ray Kaukonde, filed a complaint with the VMCZ- Media Complaints Committee over an article headed “Kaukonde ‘admits’ burning chief’s home’ published in the NewsDay of 19 May 2011.
• Mr. Kaukonde in the complaint said he was aggrieved because he says the whole story was not only inaccurate but also malicious and damaging to his person as a businessman, politician and a family man.
• He says at no point was he involved in the torching of Chief Mtekedza’s homestead and neither did he have a scuffle with the Chief as reported by NewsDay.
• Mr. Kaukonde says the whole article was false and wanted a retraction 

STATUS: FINALISED

? After a letter was written to NewsDay over Mr. Kaukonde’s complaint, NewsDay in its next edition of 20 May 2011 carried an apology saying it has conducted investigations and has established that its report was inaccurate.