A Rastafarian family is seeking the intervention of the Supreme Court to force a church-run school to rescind its decision to expel their daughter for wearing dreadlocks. The Bulawayo Adventist Secondary School expelled the dreadlocked daughter of Patson Makhiwa, who was supposed to begin Form 1 this term. It cited religious grounds. Makhiwa sought the intervention of the court for discrimination.
High Court Judge Justice Misheck Cheda on Tuesday ruled against Makhiwa, saying he should respect the school’s religious beliefs.
The judge said Makhiwa fraudulently acquired a place for his daughter at the S by claiming she was a member of the church, yet she was not.
Cheda said on that basis alone, “the school would be still entitled to cancel the admission of the child” and dismissed the applications with costs.
Makhiwa told The Zimbabwean he would lodge an application at the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling.
“The ruling and the school’s decision segregates my daughter on religious grounds as education is a right, irrespective of religion,” Makhiwa said. He is represented by Jonathan Tsvangirai of Dube-Tachiona and Tsvangirai Legal Practitioners. – Ashly Sibanda
Peter Moyo acquitted
KWEKWE – Utakataka Express frontman Peter Moyo was acquitted of all four charges he was facing after the state withdrew the case following a plea from the complainants.
Moyo faced two counts of assault, one of theft and another of malicious damage to property when he appeared before Magistrate Letwin Rwodzi.
Ngonidzashe Gwatsvaire, Leslie and Emmanuel Madovi withdrew the charges. In the case led by state prosecutor Tafadzwa Guvava, Moyo had been charged with two counts of assault after allegedly assaulting Gwatsvaire and Leslie at Lot 4A, Plot 15 in Sherwood Block in Kwekwe following a dispute over ownership of a piece of land. In the third count, the 22 year-old musician was charged with malicious assault to property after he damaged a tractor exhaust pipe belonging to Gwatsvaire, valued at $15.
In the fourth count, Moyo is said to have confiscated a tool box valued at $130, which contained 10 spanners, one wheel spanner and one hydraulic jack from Emmanuel’s commuter omnibus. Moyo had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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