Reports from Zimbabwe said on Sunday Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wrote a letter of protest to President Robert Mugabe over his recent appointment of a judge who oversaw the 2008 election to head the High Court. The MDC said that George Chiweshe oversaw electoral malpractices that led to the loss of at least 200 lives. Tsvangirai wants an urgent meeting with the president this week. The Standard newspaper said he wrote a letter of complaint to the president on Friday, a day after Mugabe swore in George Chiweshe as Judge President. Tsvangirai’s MDC said the former head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission helped Mugabe cling to power in 2008 by delaying the announcement of election results by five weeks

 

Police in Zimbabwe on Friday raided raided the offices of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and arrested two employees, Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Muhambi on allegations of possessing dangerous drugs and pornographic material. The arrests were immediately condemned as being part of the ongoing persecution of members of the gay community in the country. Chief Superintendent Peter Magwenzi and Detective Inspector Chibvuma both led a team of police officers to the offices of GALZ in Harare’s posh Milton Park suburb. Both GALZ employees Chadehama and Muhambi were hauled to Harare Central Police Station and were still in custody Saturday evening. The police are said to have taken with them several computers, documents and other material as evidence after the raid. Lawyers representing the arrested duo were denied access to their clients on Saturday. Under Zimbabwe’s harsh censorship laws pornographic material is dealt with under the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act.

 

National Association of Non Governmental Organisations (NANGO) said on Thursday it was considering pulling out of the country's constitutional making process because politicians had taken over the process. “Debates are taking place around the civil society on whether to continue with this process which has a lot of pot holes. What we are saying is that we cannot allow politicians to go ahead making the critical law of the country on their own, and there are critical preparations going on around the issue of the constitution," said NANGO's chief executive officer Cephas Zinhumwe. “What we want to tell the nation is that as civic society...we want is to find ourselves prepared for any eventuality. We are preparing our sword meaning that we preparing ourselves around such critical issues. We are having committees, think tanks, which are focusing on these issues “he said.
The civil society is currently divided over the constitution making process with non governmental organisations such as the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) led by Dr Lovemore Madhuku, the Zimbabwe Congress  of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and the Zimbabwe National Students Association of Student Unions (ZINASU) running a parallel campaign called "Take Charge."