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Beatrice Mtetwa slams CJ Malaba

Renowned human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has sharply criticised Chief Justice Luke Malaba and other members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) over what she describes as the "haranguing, humiliation, and belittling" of candidates…

Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 14:42hrs | 2979 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga ex-wife's permanent stay of prosecution application dismissed

Harare Regional Magistrate Ms. Feresi Chakanyuka has dismissed Marry Mubaiwa's application for a permanent stay of prosecution, attributing trial delays to the defense and ruling that the matter must proceed to finalization.Mubaiwa, who is…

Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 14:58hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter

Beatrice Mtetwa not happy with Chiwenga testifying in camera

Harare magistrate, Feresi Chakanyuka blocked the media from following proceedings in a case Marry Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga when he was hospitalised in South Africa.Journalists been follow…

Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

'Mnangagwa violates law'

PROMINENT lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failling to "uphold, defend, obey and respect the constitution" after he failed to appoint a tribunal to look into the suitability of Justice Webster Chinamora to…

Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:22hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Sikhala defence lawyer Mtetwa demands arrest of top prosecutors

RIGHTS lawyer Beatrice Mtethwa who is representing Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole on Tuesday called for the detention of prosecutor Micheal Reza and Lancelot Mutsokoti after they failed to co…

Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

High Court rejects Mtetwa bid

The High Court has rejected the bid by activist lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, to compel the Judicial Service Commission and President Mnangagwa to release results of interviews held six years ago for Supreme Court judges.Justice Charles Hungwe,…

Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

Malaba crisis: Ex-MDC minister, lawyers pile pressure on Mnangagwa

FORMER Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga, has ganged up with lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Valerie Ingham-Thorpe to challenge recent constitutional amendments which they say are illegal.Together with Veritas, a…

Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mlaba crisis: Mtetwa, Matinenga launch latest ConCourt bid to oust Malaba

Pushback is mounting against the controversial constitutional amendments that made the extension of Luke Malaba's tenure as Chief Justice "permissible", with top lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Eric Matinenga leading the latest charge to have …

Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Swaziland born top human rights lawyer says Zimbabwe police should be sued

TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa says police officers who take the law into their own hands through visiting forms of brutalities on suspects or turn some incidents into political cases, must be sued in their own capacity for the t…

Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Barring of Mrs B Mtetwa from seeing Hopewell Chin'ono at Chikurubi Maximum Prison

Reference is made to the above subject matter and to your letter addressed to the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service dated 25 August 2020. The Order that was made by Magistrate Nduna in paragraph I reads …

Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 21:02hrs | 8 | by W Risiro

Interview - Mtetwa: MDCs do not help their cause

PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa - currently on trial for allegedly insulting the police while trying to defend her clients - was in London recently to launch the film about her work in Zimbabwe, 'Beatrice Mtetwa and the rule …

Published: 08 Jul 2013 at 19:30hrs | | by Violet Gonda

Beatrice Mtetwa faces her date with Zimbabwean justice

On May 27, Zimbabwean lawyer and human-rights activist Beatrice Mtetwa will enter magistrate's court in Harare to be tried on charges of obstructing justice. In March, she was arrested and held for eight days after trying to prevent an ill…

Published: 09 May 2013 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by MICHAEL POSNER I The Globe and Mail

Beatrice Mtetwa, Gideon Gono the 'Untouchables'

One repugnant conduct that has developed like a cancer in Zimbabwe and which now needs to be tackled head-on without fear or favour is the scourge of untouchables which is based on a corrupt presumption of impunity by some self-important i…

Published: 24 Mar 2013 at 10:21hrs | 3 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Zim should heed rule of law in Beatrice Mtetwa case

New York - CPJ writes to the minister of Justice of Zimbabwe, Hon. Patrick Chinamasa, expressing concern about the arrest on Sunday of award-winning human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and her subsequent detention by police in defiance of …

Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 22:07hrs | | by CPJ

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