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This has been a delicate issue for international human rights activists for a long time: how to advance human dignity and equality, without deploying the colonial discourse of other nations and cultures as barbaric and in need of the civilizing mission of the West.ĭifferent campaigns have forged different strategies to negotiate the dilemma. Anti-colonial resistance would then defend their cultural practices, and denounce the corrupt ways of West. The treatment of women in many traditional societies was used by colonial powers to justify their harsh interventions. Issues of women’s rights and sexuality have long been cast as Western, and as part of the West’s civilizing mission over the colonies.
This is a common trope of nationalist post colonial states. It wants to look at Africa and say, ‘If you don’t accept homosexuality, you are primitive.’ But we’re not as wicked as the West.” Zacc Kawalala, the leader of the Word Alive Ministry and a member of the national human rights commission, was quoted in the Times as stating: “The West has its gay agenda. “These immoral acts are not in our culture they are coming from outside…Otherwise, why is there all this interest from around the world? Why is money being sent?” Leckford Thotho, the minister of information and civic affairs was quoted in the New York Times as stating: In Malawi, homosexuality is often cast as a corrupt foreign practice. It might be more interesting to observe the discourse of the prosecutions, as well as the discourse of resistance within these countries. Even the Harper government, that great friend of gay rights in Canada, condemned the persecution of the two gay men.
The criticism of Malawi has been extensive. It would be easy to join in the international condemnation, with its slightly orientalist twist, of such repressive state actions. The charges resulted from the two men holding a commitment ceremony. Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 33, and Steven Monjeza, 26, were sentenced to 14 years in prison. On Tuesday, May 18th, a court in Malawi convicted two gay men of unnatural acts and gross indecency. On Thursday, May 20th, a court in China sentenced a man who participated in swinging and organized swinger parties to three and a half years in prison, a severe penalty for a crime that the Chinese government calls “crowd licentiousness.” The four were driving in a Toyota Wish vehicle.It wasn’t a particularly good week for the rights of sexual minorites around the globe. “On August 10, police were performing roadblock duties at the 160km peg along Mutare-Harare Highway when they stopped Chiroodza who was in the company of three accomplices. Prosecutor, Mr Tawanda Munjanja, said Chiroodza and his accomplices fled from the police, but left his fake identity at the roadblock leading to his arrest later. Rusape magistrate, Ms Rutendo Machingura sentenced Chiroodza to three months imprisonment which she suspended on condition that he pays $8 000 fine.Ĭhiroodza who was not represented pleaded guilty to the charge. The other three are still at large, while luck ran out of George Chiroodza who was convicted of impersonating a public official after he produced a fake ZAAC identity card at a police roadblock in Headlands. Meanwhile, a Harare man, together with three accomplices who were masquerading as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission officials was convicted and jailed over the offence. This will instill confidence in people to report corruption cases,” he said.ĭr Magiga also called for the fast-tracking of the Bill. “This Bill stipulates that Government will make sure that everyone who reports grand corruption cases can be put in safe houses to protect their lives. A Bill is being worked on to protect them. “We have noticed that a lot of witnesses remain tight-lipped because of fear of victimisation. They can also proffer ideas on how we can effectively deal with this scourge,” he said.ĭr Magiga expressed optimism in the Whistle-blower and Witness Protection Bill that is expected to be tabled before Parliament soon, stating that once it is passed, witnesses will be protected.
“People are encouraged to visit these new offices and report corruption cases. We were supposed to open the Mutare office on August 30, but this was delayed due to unforeseen circumstances,” he said.ĭr Magiga encouraged the people of Manicaland to take advantage of the new offices to join in the fight against corruption by reporting all cases as well as being whistle-blowers. “We are glad that the commission will be effectively represented across the nation and by mid-September all our new provincial offices will be operational.
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