To be a lawyer in Zimbabwe prepared to act for those who find themselves targeted by Zimbabwean authorities, and more particularly ZANU PF authorities, must be among the most courageous…
SW Radio Africa Alex Bell The arrest last week of renowned human rights lawyer and MDC-T parliamentary candidate Arnold Tsunga, has cast even more doubt on the credibility of next…
Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) condemns the arrest of MDC parliamentary candidate Arnold Tsunga and 50 supporters on 20 July 2013, and the banning of a political rally in…
What was supposed to be the coming-out party for the new Zimbabwean Constitution risks becoming just another illegitimate election. Holding the election on July 31st, though in keeping with the…
On 22 May 2013 President Robert Mugabe assented to Zimbabwe’s New Constitution, signing it into law. The new Constitution brought Zimbabwe’s much anticipated general elections one step closer, paving the…
The fight against cervical cancer in Africa received a welcome boost when Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, the two pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines protecting individuals from specific cancer-causing strains of the human…
You know this has to be done, somebody has to do it, and why shouldn’t it be you?” That is Zimbabwe’s most prominent human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa’s matter-of-fact explanation…
On 16 March 2013, Zimbabwe held a referendum on whether to accept the draft COPAC Constitution. Initial reports suggest that an overwhelming majority of the approximately two million voters who…
In a recent opinion piece – South African Courts’ Zimbabwean Problem – that appeared in the Daily Maverick, I looked at a number of Zimbabwe related cases that have been or…
A group of Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed of their land in Zimbabwe’s controversial land redistribution policy will face off against the Zimbabwean government in the South African Constitutional Court today. This…