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A new dossier containing detailed accounts of torture and abuse at the hands of known ZANU PF perpetrators has been handed to South Africa’s prosecuting authorities, in the wake of a landmark ruling that compels this cross border probe.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has made the potentially devastating decision to dissolve the regional human rights court, for at least another year. The Tribunal has already been suspended for more than six months, after SADC leaders last year decided to review the mandate and functions of the court.
Johannesburg – With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans have petitioned South Africa’s New Reclamation Group for access to information that will shed some much-needed light on its controversial mining operations – and prove whether any of its promises to local communities have been fulfilled.