Two of South Africa's foremost constitutional lawyers will appear in Zimbabwe's Supreme Court to mount a constitutional challenge against the continued incarceration of former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Member of Parliament Roy Bennett.
Due to appear before Zimbabwe's highest court in Harare on Bennett's behalf are advocates Mathew Chaskalson SC and Jeremy Gauntlett SC.
They will try to help Bennet barely a year after George Bizos saved MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai from going to the gallows on charges that he plotted to murder President Robert Mugabe.
Roy Bennett is serving a 12-month sentence with hard labour after he pushed Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa during a heated debate on the land issue last year.
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Chinamasa had labelled Bennett's white ancestors as "murderers and thieves". - Independent Foreign Service
- This article was originally published on page 10 of Daily News on May 27, 2005
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