adminA group of women linked to Jenni Williams’ WOZA had also picketed the court anticipating a negative outcome for Mtetwa, in what appeared to be a well-rehearsed set-up for the cameras.
The women were, however, left mere rebels without a cause after Justice Musakwa granted Mtetwa US$500 bail.
Kerry’s father Robert was brother to the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. She established the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Human Rights in 1988 and is also the chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council, all of which have strong links to the American establishment.
Mtetwa’s arrest grabbed international headlines with Western pundits calling for her release without giving the justice system the chance to take its course.
Kerry was accompanied by multi-award winning American actress and producer, Alfre Ette Woodard, whose presence gave proceedings the feel of melodrama.
Mtetwa has variously been described as a drama queen on account of her court antics and famed temperament. The duo sneaked into Harare yesterday to attend Mtetwa’s bail hearing at the High Court.
Woodard has starred in many movies, including Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, as well as in Desperate Housewives as Betty Applewhite and Grey’s Anatomy as Justine Campbell.
Clad in a long frock and dark glasses, Woodard was among the people who packed the High Court during the bail hearing.
“I am in the country to visit a friend and I am not sure of when I will leave,” she said, before being whisked by an unidentified man.
After about 30 minutes, Woodward was seen walking away from the court towards the corner of Second Street and Samora Machel Avenue with Kennedy and other unidentified people.
Kennedy is also famed for authoring Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which features interviews with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among others.
Woodard was born on November 8 in 1952 in Oklahoma and started her acting career in 1978.
In 1997, she starred in the HBO film Miss Evers’ Boys, for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a CableACE Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Satellite Awards.
This year she won an NACCP Image Award as the Outstanding Actress in Steel Magnolias
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