The Zimbabwe Update

Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife Susan were involved in a car crash earlier today, and Susan was killed when their car was sideswiped by a truck while they were on their way to a rally.

That comes at a time when Robert Mugabe continues pulling the strings and harassing Tsvangirai's MDC party officials.

Zimbabwean police have arrested a magistrate who tried to release a senior politician while his case was still before the country's highest court, a police spokesman said on Friday.

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court on Thursday granted prosecutors the right to appeal against a ruling by a High Court judge to grant bail to Roy Bennett of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which is in government with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.

Livingstone Chipadze, a magistrate who refused to drop terrorism and banditry charges against Bennett two weeks ago, had tried to process the High Court's bail ruling before the Supreme Court had heard the state's appeal, police said.

Bennett, who had been set to become a junior minister, was arrested on Feb. 13 and charged with plotting terrorism, which carries a possible life sentence. He will remain in custody until a hearing date is set.

While South Africa may be looking to extend Zimbabwe a line of credit, the South Africans busy shuttering a clinic helping those refugees looking for relief from the cholera epidemic rampaging through Zimbabwe as a result of Mugabe's ruinous rule.

Those victims and refugees are also increasingly finding themselves victims of rape.