Zimbabwe: Magistrate Defers MDC Leader's Trial

Johannesburg — AS SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) ministers met in Harare yesterday under the auspices of the ministerial committee of the SADC organ on politics, defence and security, Zimbabwe's official opposition's deputy president was told he would have to return to prison.

Gibson Sibanda of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been charged under the Public Order and Security Act for the part he played in organising a recent peaceful protest.

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