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Magistrate Judith Taruvinga was slammed on Monday by the High Court over her conviction and sentencing of pro-democracy campaigner Makomborero Haruzivishe. In their exhortation, high court judges Justice Benjamin Chikowero and Justice Happias Zhou described her judgment as “fundamentally misdirected” and it wasn't “through”

It is said that the magistrate rushed her judgment without verifying whether the evidence brought before her was the witness's evidence.

It has become common for magistrates and judges to make questionable rulings in cases that involve pro-democracy campaigners and activists. MPs Job Sikhala and Hon. Sithole and other CCC members from Nyatsime have been in remand for more than 200 days now and have been repeatedly denied bail without any reasons proffered. Recently award-winning author Tsitsi Dangarembga and her co-accused Julie Barnes were convicted for raising placards demanding reforms at a protest in 2020.

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Advocate Thabani Mpofu bemoans the state of affairs at the courts.

It is to be seen whether the rap on Magistrate Judith Taruvinga means a change in direction for the courts or it is an isolated event. The fate of Sikhala, Sithole, and the Nyatsime 16 will give us a full picture of what our judiciary system now represents.

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