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University of Zimbabwe students further remanded
Student Solidarity Trust
March 26, 2009

A Harare magistrate has further remanded three University of Zimbabwe students to 23 April 2009. The three, Vitalis Mudzonga, Tawanda Katsuro and Justice Chikanya, appeared before the magistrate on routine remand hearing this morning. The magistrate also altered their bail conditions by deleting reporting conditions. Since 09 February they were reporting at Harare Central Police station every Friday.

The three were part of a group of eighty students who were arrested on 05 February at the University of Zimbabwe when students demonstrated against a new fees structure that was announced by the University authorities. The demonstration was part of the National Campaign against Dollarisation of Education in Zimbabwe (NACADEZ).After a screening process at Avondale police station the three were transferred to Harare Central Police station for further interrogation. The University of Zimbabwe is set to open on 30 March following its closure on February 06 after the demonstration.

Meanwhile, former University of Zimbabwe student leader and spokesperson of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Madock Chivasa, Farirai Mageza, Simbai Chivasa, Hillary Zhou and two others are set to appear before a Bikita magistrate on charges of public violence which arose during the March Harmonized Election. The six were arrested on the eve of the 29 March harmonized election when they were concluding the "Go Vote Campaign" at Chaduka business center in Bikita.

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