HARARE — The High Court has ordered lawyer and opposition politician Fadzayi Mahere to pay US$33,000 in legal costs to Tino Machakaire, the Minister of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training, in a preliminary stage of their ongoing defamation dispute. The costs order follows a special plea Mahere filed in response to Machakaire’s defamation suit over comments she posted on X. In that application, Mahere argued the minister’s claim lacked a proper cause of acti