Activist challenges removal of human rights chair

The Constitutional Court scheduled a hearing to address the unilateral reassignment of Jessie Majome from her post as chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission. Pro-democracy activist Allan Chipoyi filed the lawsuit, asserting that the president violated the constitution by transferring Majome to the Public Service Commission. Government representatives defended the reassignment as a standard administrative deployment within the civil service. Legal experts countered that the move undermines the independence of the human rights watchdog by subjecting its leadership to executive whim. The core vulnerability of the executive's decision rests on whether the constitution permits the lateral transfer of independent commission heads.