{"id":10638,"date":"2012-05-08T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/south-african-courts-to-hear-zimbabwe-rights-cases\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:54:28","slug":"south-african-courts-to-hear-zimbabwe-rights-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-courts-to-hear-zimbabwe-rights-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"South African courts to hear Zimbabwe rights cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ruling applies to Zimbabweans in South Africa<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mugabe and ruling party members suspected of abuses<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Could make it hard for ZANU-PF officials to travel to<br \/>\nS.Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, May 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court ruled<br \/>\non Tuesday its legal system can be used to investigate and<br \/>\nprosecute citizens of neighbouring Zimbabwe for suspected of<br \/>\ncrimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision by a high court in Pretoria could prod South<br \/>\nAfrica into launching investigations into high-ranking Harare<br \/>\nofficials that would strain already difficult diplomatic<br \/>\nrelations with the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ruling applies to Zimbabweans in South Africa and could<br \/>\nbe extended to those who have travel plans to the country.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Robert Mugabe and several members of his ruling<br \/>\nZANU-PF have already been hit with international sanctions for<br \/>\nsuspected human rights abuses that include using death squads to<br \/>\nintimidate citizens and rigging elections to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This judgment will send a shiver down the spines of<br \/>\nZimbabwean officials who believed that they would never be held<br \/>\nto account for their crimes but now face investigation by the<br \/>\nSouth African authorities,&#8221; said Nicole Fritz, executive<br \/>\ndirector of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre &#8211; one of the<br \/>\napplicants.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Ruling applies to Zimbabweans in South Africa * Mugabe and ruling party members suspected of abuses * Could make it hard for ZANU-PF officials to travel to S.Africa By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, May 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court ruled on Tuesday its legal system can be used to investigate and prosecute citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}