(h) any work or service that forms part of normal civil obligations, including any military or other service or training that Zimbabwean citizens or residents are required to undergo in terms of an Act of Parliament. 41 Freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment (1) No one may be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (2) For the sake of clarity, it is declared that cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment includes gender-based violence. (3) ) The following treatments or punishments are not to be regarded as cruel, inhuman or degrading for the purposes of this section– (a) reasonable measures taken to prevent the escape of persons who are legally detained; or (b) the carrying out of the death penalty, no matter what the delay in carrying it out, where– (i) the persons executed have been sentenced to death by a competent court on conviction for murder; and (ii) the penalty is carried out in the manner prescribed by law immediately before the appointed day. 42 Right to dignity and reputation (1) Everyone has inherent dignity and the right to have their dignity and reputation respected and protected. (2) Anyone who is injured by an inaccurate or offensive statement or idea disseminated to the general public by a newspaper, journal, broadcast or other medium of communication has a right to reply or to have a correction published, using the same medium of communication. (3) A law must establish the way in which the right of reply or to correction is to be exercised. 43 Freedom from discrimination (1) Everyone has a right not to be treated in an unfairly discriminatory manner on such grounds as their race, colour, tribe, place of birth, ethnic or social origin, language, class, religious belief, political or other opinion, culture, sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability or natural difference or condition. (2) A person is treated in a discriminatory manner for the purposes of subsection (1) if he or she is prejudiced– (a) by being subjected to a condition, restriction or disability to which other people are not subjected; or (b) through other people being accorded a privilege or advantage which he or she is not accorded. (3) Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (1) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is reasonable and justifiable in an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom. - 24 -

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