Filmmaker says Beatrice Mtetwa's use of the rule of law is 'her means of resistance against the regime'
Beatrice Mtetwa grew up on a Swaziland farm with nearly 50 siblings. An average day involved waking at 4am, working in the maize fields, preparing breakfast for her family, walking barefoot to school over an hour away, preparing dinner, doing chores and, finally, going to bed. Now 54, she believes it was her childhood struggles that helped make her who she is today: a fearless human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, dedicating her life to representing those persecuted under the Mugabe regime, and whose story has been captured in a new documentary.
For over two decades, she's proven indefatigable in her fight against injustice. In 2009 Mtetwa became the only African other than Nelson Mandela to win the prestigious Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. Now, her courage in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles has been...
Beatrice Mtetwa grew up on a Swaziland farm with nearly 50 siblings. An average day involved waking at 4am, working in the maize fields, preparing breakfast for her family, walking barefoot to school over an hour away, preparing dinner, doing chores and, finally, going to bed. Now 54, she believes it was her childhood struggles that helped make her who she is today: a fearless human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, dedicating her life to representing those persecuted under the Mugabe regime, and whose story has been captured in a new documentary.
For over two decades, she's proven indefatigable in her fight against injustice. In 2009 Mtetwa became the only African other than Nelson Mandela to win the prestigious Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. Now, her courage in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles has been...
- 6/18/2013
- by Rebecca Lowe
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is the only African recipient, other than Nelson Mandela, of the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. For over two decades she has tirelessly battled injustice in Zimbabwe, with particular emphasis on representing those brutalised and tortured after opposing the president, Robert Mugabe. Lorie Conway's Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law (2013) uses its subject's life as a prism through which to present an examination of legality in recent Zimbabwean history. It also shines a light on the shocking actions of government loyalists, in a similar way to 2009's Mugabe and the White African.
Providing a potted history of the much-maligned Mugabe's rise to power and the coinciding emergence of the fearless lawyer, Rule of Law combines archive footage with interviews of those close to the political situation, as well as friends, family, and Beatrice herself. Through the recollections of various people, in whose corner...
Providing a potted history of the much-maligned Mugabe's rise to power and the coinciding emergence of the fearless lawyer, Rule of Law combines archive footage with interviews of those close to the political situation, as well as friends, family, and Beatrice herself. Through the recollections of various people, in whose corner...
- 6/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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