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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe court rescinds Marange mine ruling

8th September 2010
Yesterday, shares fell the most since May as the company said it would immediately appeal to the Supreme Court against the rescission. It said the move would have the effect of suspending the judgment.
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Zimbabwe: Magistrate jails man for Mugabe 'wrinkles' insult

6th September 2010
Zimbabweans are reeling in shock after a court jailed a young man for describing President Robert Mugabe, 86, as an "old man with wrinkles".
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Party Leaders, Security Chiefs Sued by Former Detainees

31st August 2010
Human-rights activist Jestina Mukoko and 17 others are suing some of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's closest colleagues for million, claiming they were kidnapped, tortured and illegally detained in 2008.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe police torch informal settlement

28th August 2010
Human rights groups on Friday accused Zimbabwean police of setting fire to an informal settlement in Harare, forcing about 250 people from their homes.
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Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf Officials to Be Questioned in Torture Trial

24th August 2010
By Alex Bell Top ZANU PF officials are set to face questioning in the High Court next week, in ....
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Zimbabwe: Zim again under spotlight at regional summit

13th August 2010
Southern African leaders meet on Monday in Namibia's capital, Windhoek, to discuss Zimbabwe's strained unity government and its refusal to adhere to rulings by a regional tribunal.
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Zimbabwe: Zim ignoring SADC tribunal remains hot

10th August 2010
A COMMITTEE of justice ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will report to heads of state during the regional summit in Windhoek this weekend about Zimbabwe continually ignoring rulings made by the SADC Tribunal.
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Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence

31st July 2010
SALC is supporting a case requesting judicial review of a decision by the Office of the Presidency t....
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NPA's Refusal to Investigate Alleged Torture by Zimbabwean Police Officials

30th July 2010
SALC, together with the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), is urging the High Court of Gauteng t....
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Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Slapped With Fresh Charges

28th July 2010
Diamond researcher and human rights activist Farai Maguwu has been slapped with fresh charges, just over two weeks after his release on bail from Harare Remand Prison.
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Zimbabwe: Gay rights activist acquitted in Zimbabwe

26th July 2010
A Zimbabwean gay rights activist has been found not guilty of pornography charges after a police raid in May on his group's offices, his lawyer said on Monday. Ignatius Muhambi, an accountant for Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, was arrested along with office administrator Ellen Chademana during the raid.
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Video: How Civil Society Stopped an Arms Shipment Bound for Zimbabwe

21st July 2010
Watch a short film on civil society’s campaign to stop a shipment of arms to Zimbabwe in the w....
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Zimbabwe: Call for ICC to probe 'Zanu-PF rape campaign'

21st July 2010
The International Criminal Court (ICC) must probe alleged crimes against humanity after Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's youth militia launched a campaign of rape during 2008 elections, a campaign group said on Wednesday. RICHARD INGHAM
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Zimbabwe: 'Mugabe a rogue who will do anything to stay in power'

19th July 2010
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe should not be allowed to continue to flout the basic legal principles of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.
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Zimbabwe: Zim faces censure for ignoring farm ruling

17th July 2010
The SADC tribunal will report to the next summit of SADC heads of state Zimbabwe's non-compliance with a ruling on its land reform policies, AfriForum said on Friday.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe diamonds deal to allow partial exports

16th July 2010
The body overseeing the trade in "blood diamonds" has agreed that Zimbabwe can resume limited exports from new diamond fields in the east of the country. Under the terms of the deal, Zimbabwe will be able to sell some stockpiles.
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Zimbabwe: US 1500 bail for diamond activist

13th July 2010
He is facing charges of communicating falsehoods about alleged "atrocities and human rights abuses" at the Chiadzwa diamond fields. High Court judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze upheld Maguwu’s contention that he was a suitable candidate for bail and allowed the appeal.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe diamond-crime whistleblower freed on bail

12th July 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A judge in Zimbabwe has freed a human rights activist jailed for more than five weeks on allegations of passing false information on diamond-mining violations to the international diamond control body.
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Zimbabwe: Political will needed to stop blood diamonds from Zim

9th July 2010
Blood diamonds will flood back into the worldwide market unless a way is found to bring Zimbabwe back under global control at a key meeting next week, according to one of the world's biggest diamond tycoons.
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Zimbabwe: Bail Appeal for Jailed Diamond Researcher Delayed

7th July 2010
A second bail application for jailed diamond researcher Farai Maguwu has been delayed, after the Attorney General's office said it wasn't ready for Wednesday's court hearing.
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Zimbabwe: Amnesty demands release of Zimbabwe diamond field rights activist

6th July 2010
London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International on Tuesday demanded Zimbabwean authorities release an activist who exposed brutal abuses by security forces at a controversial diamond field in the east of the country.
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Zimbabwe: Diplomat Secures Release of Farmer in Zimbabwe

5th July 2010
Johannesburg — DIPLOMATIC intervention by SA's ambassador in Zimbabwe, Prof Mlungisi Makalima, has helped secure the release of a South African farmer jailed in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe: Zim gay activist denies charges

2nd July 2010
Harare - A Zimbabwean gay rights activist on Thursday pleaded not guilty to breaching censorship laws when he appeared before a magistrate's court accused of possessing pornography.
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Zimbabwe: Conflict over diamonds

1st July 2010
JOHANNESBURG, 1 July 2010 (IRIN) - A statement by Zimbabwe's mining minister, Obert Mpofu, that the Cabinet had approved the sale of diamonds from the controversial Marange fields has been dismissed by another minister as "lies".
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe: Spectre of blood diamonds return

27th June 2010
The stakes were high as the sun set in Tel Aviv last week. Seventy international delegates talked long into the night but failed to reach a consensus. At issue: what one campaign group describes as the "return of the blood diamond".
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Zimbabwe: Deadlock over Zimbabwe 'blood diamond' trade

25th June 2010
Zimbabwe's army took control of the Marange mines four years ago The organisation that controls the international diamond trade has failed to agree whether Zimbabwe should be allowed to resume diamond sales.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond watchdog talks deadlock over Zim

24th June 2010
Talks between members of the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme were deadlocked over whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume trade in gems from its controversial Marange fields.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Diamonds Fail to Get Conflict-Free Approval

24th June 2010
JOHANNESBURG — An international undertaking to prevent the trade in diamonds that fuel conflict ended in a stalemate Thursday over whether to approve Zimbabwe’s export of millions of carats of newly-mined diamonds, but the nation threatened to sell the stones on its own anyway.
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Zimbabwe: Court dismisses Maguwu’s bail application

22nd June 2010
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an appeal for bail by Centre for Research and Development Trust director Farai Maguwu, who is charged with communicating falsehoods on the human rights situation in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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Zimbabwe: Rights group calls to halt to Zim diamond trade

21st June 2010
A leading international human rights group called on the global diamond industry's oversight body to remove Zimbabwe from its ranks because of alleged illicit trading and abuses in its diamond fields.
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