Ange Mashauri and Jeanette Nyangore and Petronella Nyamapfene versus Chief Immigration Officer and The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage and Commissioner General Prisons and Correctional Services and Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare

Key Issues

• {"issue_text":"Whether the detention of minor children with adult detainees at Chikurubi Maximum Prison violated Section 81 of the Constitution.","issue_type":"constitutional","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Detention with adults, no separation, minors in prison"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the failure to provide educational services to detained children violated their constitutional rights under Section 81(1)(f).","issue_type":"constitutional","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"No educational facilities provided"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the applicants, having willfully disobeyed a lawful administrative directive to leave Zimbabwe, can seek constitutional relief from the court (\"dirty hands\" doctrine).","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Rejection of asylum, failure to depart, prohibited status"}

Background