WOZA leaders finally released

By Violet Gonda
3 July 2008

Jennie Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu have finally been released on bail after spending six week at Chikurubi maximum prison for holding a peaceful protest. The leaders of the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested on May 28th, together with 13 others, for holding a demonstration in Bulawayo,
The police charged them with conducting activities likely to cause public disorder.

The other members were released on June 11th, but the two leaders were denied bail on allegations that they would organise Kenyan-style post-election violence, ahead of the run off.

Williams is facing an extra charge of publishing falsehoods through the fliers WOZA had been distributing. The pressure group uses nonviolent methods to demand social justice and an end to violence in Zimbabwe.