JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE 123 ____________________________________________________________________ She was held in a holding cell. She was the only person in that cell. It was pitch black when she was placed in the cell. The cell was filthy, crawling with lice and full of mosquitoes. The next morning her lawyers had to seek assistance from the Attorney-General’s office in tracing her whereabouts. In this way they found out that Dr Lovemore was being taken from the Warren Park police station to the Law and Order Section of the Central Police station. Her lawyer was present when a further warned and cautioned statement was taken from her. The police and Dr Lovemore’s lawyer then proceeded to the Attorney-General’s office. After lengthy deliberation the prosecutor assigned to deal with the matter decided that Dr Lovemore should be released without taking her to court to be placed on remand. The prosecutor indicated that the police would still be entitled to bring a charge against Dr Lovemore should they find further evidence which would support such a charge. It seems clear that in this case there were deliberate and persistent efforts by the police to deny a suspect in a politically sensitive case her constitutional right to legal representation. Topic 11 11. THE FARM WORKERS’ REFUGE CASE The Zimbabwe Community Development Trust is a Christian humanitarian organisation that was formed to look after farm workers who have been displaced from the farms where they used to work as a result of the seizure of commercial farms by government for resettlement. According to a press release 170 by the Trust the following events have taken place: Originally the Trust had 270 people in three tented camps around Harare. The Trust had encouraged these persons to approach the Social Welfare Department for assistance and to request the Ministry of Agriculture to allocate some land to them under the land resettlement scheme. However, the police raided the camps, rounded