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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The trial of three MDC Alliance activists which Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande insisted should proceed despite a pending application for her recusal has been stalled by the High Court.<\/p>\n

Joana Mamombe who is the Harare West MP, and her two colleagues Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova are accused of falsehoods after they reported their alleged abduction by State security agents last year to the police.<\/p>\n

NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n

reports that High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi said the urgent chamber application filed by the trio to stop the trial has been moved to 13 May and their trial has to be stopped to allow a Higher Court\u2019s decision on the matter. Justice Chitapi ruled:<\/p>\n

The hearing of the urgent application is postponed to 13 May 2021 at 2:30 pm. The trial of the three applicants in case number CRB ACC 45-47\/20 is hereby temporarily stayed pending the determination of this urgent application.<\/p>\n

To enable determination of the matter and to meet the request of the parties, for the transcript of proceedings in the said case to be availed at the applicants\u2019 costs.<\/p>\n

The three through their lawyer Alec Muchadehama are seeking recusal of the presiding magistrate Bianca Makwande and prosecutor Michael Reza who they accuse of being personal.<\/p>\n

They submitted that they will never have a fair trial as long as Makwande and Reza are handling their case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The trial of three MDC Alliance activists which Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande insisted should proceed despite a pending application for her recusal has been stalled by the High Court. Joana Mamombe who is the Harare West MP, and her two colleagues Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova are accused of falsehoods after they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,4619,2224,4618,1530,4620,3121,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-39874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-bianca-makwande","14":"tag-joana-mamombe","15":"tag-joana-mamombe-abduction","16":"tag-justice-tawanda-chitapi","17":"tag-michael-reza","18":"tag-tawanda-chitapi","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nHigh Court Halts Trial Of MDC Alliance Trio - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The trial of three MDC Alliance activists which Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande insisted should proceed despite a pend ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/high-court-halts-trial-of-mdc-alliance-trio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Court Halts Trial Of MDC Alliance Trio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The trial of three MDC Alliance activists which Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande insisted should proceed despite a pend ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/high-court-halts-trial-of-mdc-alliance-trio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-07T17:48:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-07T16:48:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60956f343f7cf.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/high-court-halts-trial-of-mdc-alliance-trio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/high-court-halts-trial-of-mdc-alliance-trio\",\"name\":\"High Court Halts Trial Of MDC Alliance Trio - 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