Zimbabwe: Parly Adopts SADC Tribunal Protocol

19 August 2016

The National Assembly yesterday adopted the Sadc Tribunal Protocol that seeks to rationalise its powers by barring it from hearing cases brought against states by its citizens.

The Tribunal was disbanded in 2010 after Zimbabwe protested its biased ruling on Harare's successful land reform programme as white commercial farmers would seek to challenge the agrarian reform after losing their cases in domestic courts.

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