Marry Mubaiwa

"I am of course emotionally and psychologically messed up"

"I am not well at all and I feel that if I had gone out of the country to seek better treatment, I would be better, but the court refused to give me my passport as part of bail conditions. I stay at my parents’ home because I have nothing. I don’t have a house and even a car, so I am under my parents’ care"

"Justice is supposed to be just and tempered with mercy, humanity, empathy – all absent from our justice delivery system"

"Especially not seeing my children is very painful for me. Sometimes I start having thoughts of committing suicide — and don’t be surprised [if I do] . . . In a couple of days, it will be my daughter’s and my son’s birthdays. I have not spoken to them even over the phone. My lawyers have written to [Chiwenga’s] lawyers many times for me to get access to my children but that has not helped"

"It’s made me think whether we’re stealing from our clients under the guise of providing them with justice"