Fadzai Mahere-Petina Gappah Legal Row Takes A New Dramatic Twist Fadzai Mahere THE case in which Harare lawyer and politician Fadzai Mahere is suing another legal practitioner Petina Gappah, for $1 million for alleged defamation has taken a new twist with the latter standing by her word. Gappah has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court demanding release of certain documents which she says support her defence. She is also defending the suit claiming that Mahere “extracted a tweet from her twitter feed, which was not all about her and inferred that it was” before she responded in a crude and disproportionate manner saying that Gappah has never been in a Zimbabwean courtroom, as such, should not call herself a lawyer.