Harare, Zimbabwe – Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has spent the last 17 months in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison, the longest stretch an opposition figure has been held in pre-trial detention in almost four decades in Zimbabwe.
But the 51-year-old lawyer is no stranger to prison life: This is his 65th arrest since his foray into partisan politics in 1999 at the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the largest opposition in the Southern African country for years.
