Setting the record straight

IN our issue of 2 November 2014 we published an article titled “Kaukonde in sex scandal”. In the publication allegations were made against Mr Ray Joseph Kaukonde, then Zanu-PF Mashonaland East Province Chairperson and Minister of Provincial Affairs for the same province that he was an unprincipled and immoral politician and leader demanding sex from married and unmarried women in exchange for political positions, that he had slept with a married member of the National Assembly, that he was a womaniser who had ruined many families and was generally unworthy.

The article further claimed that many women had succumbed to Mr Ray Joseph Kaukonde’s demands and others had abandoned their political ambitions for fear of sexual harassment by him.

It has come to our attention that the allegations appearing in the article referred to above were completely and utterly untrue and were based on sources of information that have been established to have no credibility at all. Consequently therefore, we hereby retract in their entirety the allegations in the article and wish to apologise unreservedly to Mr Ray Joseph Kaukonde and his family for the damage done to his good name and reputation and the embarrassment and anguish caused by this publication.— Editor.