A Zimbabwean court has ruled Jameson Timba and 34 others, who have been in prison since their arrest at his house in Harare more than five months ago, guilty of unlawful gathering. From 2004 to 2008, Jameson Timba was the chairman of the board of trustees of Arundel School, and from 2005, he was chairman of the Association of Trust Schools, a grouping of private schools in Zimbabwe.
During this period he successfully defended the rights of schools to exist and operate without interference from the Zimbabwe state by mounting ten lawsuits against the minister of education at the time (Lazarus Dokora) without a single loss. He holds a bachelor of science in political science and a master’s in MBA from the University of Zimbabwe, which is a public university in Harare that opened in 1952 as the university and College Rhodesia and Nyasaland and was originally affiliated with the University of London.
Jameson Timba, an interim of the Citizens Coalition of Change (CCC) was arrested on June 16 with nearly 80 other people criticised as being a part of a crackdown on political dissent.