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Charges against the trustees of the Voice of the People radio station were literally dropped when magistrate William Bhila removed them from further remand.

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Beatrice Mtetwa, who was representing trustees of the Voice of the People radio station, said the crackdown on the “pirate” station was aimed at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and its director Arnold Tsunga rather than at the station.

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Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said the government’s targeting of individuals on its travel ban had no impact on her because she used a Swazi passport.

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Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Botswana Phelekezela Mphoko was told by a Botswana businessman not to intimidate Zimbabwean activists attending a human rights seminar there after he told the audience not to listen to their lies.

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Judge Nicholas McNally who had opposed the Ian Smith regime found himself on the wrong side again when President Robert Mugabe’s government wanted him out arguing that he was one of the colonial holdovers.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa wanted judges of the Supreme Court out because he claimed they were colonialist holdovers from the Ian Smith regime.

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Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Jan Trojborg told Western diplomats that President Robert Mugabe was annoyed by the British because of the way that they received former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith because he was not received that way.

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Beatrice Mtetwa who was representing four directors of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, who were being charged with publishing a newspaper without a licence, complained that her clients had been detained in “inhuman conditions”.

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Police arrested between 180 and 300 demonstrators, 10 years ago, calling for a new constitution. They were carrying placards which read: “We are prepared to die for a new democratic constitution”.

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The late John Nkomo said former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith phoned him every day about the status of his farm at the height of farm invasions when he was Minister of Home Affairs.

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