Jane Mlambo| Following the conviction of Tendai Biti, the court has adjourned and will resume to allow the defense counsel to make mitigation before the sentence is passed.

Biti was found guilty of contravening the Electoral Act after he announced that his party Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa had won the July 30 elections.

Section 66A of the Electoral Act which deals with unofficial announcement of results says “any person who purports to announce the result of an election as the true or official results;  or purports to declare any candidate to have been duly elected before an electoral officer, acting in accordance with this Act, has announced the result of that election or declared a candidate to have been duly elected in that election, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”