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Zimbabwe Gives Mugabe Power to Appoint Judges

Zimbabwe's parliament has amended the country's constitution to empower the president to handpick the country's top judges without consulting any other institution. Plans to give President Robert Mugabe such power started early this year when the then-chief justice left the bench after reaching the age of retirement.

Zimbabwe: Citizens Slam Vote for Mugabe to Change Constitution

News24Wire, 27 July 2017

Prominent Zimbabweans Wednesday took to social media to slam a vote by MPs from President Robert Mugabe's party to change the constitution, just four years after the country… Read more »

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Zimbabwe: Parliament Amends Constitution to Let President Handpick Top Judges

VOA, 26 July 2017

Zimbabwe's parliament has amended the country's constitution to empower the president to handpick the southern African nation's top judges. Read more »
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Gets Unlimited Powers to Appoint Judges

The Herald, 26 July 2017

Constitutional Amendment Bill (Number One) sailed through the National Assembly last night in an incident-filled sitting as MDC-T lawmakers protested bitterly during deliberations. Read more »
Zimbabwe: Mugabe to Appoint Supreme Court Judges

Zimbabwe Independent, 30 June 2017

President Robert Mugabe will soon appoint judges to the Supreme Court, almost a year after they were publicly interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), despite the… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Judges Shoot Down Mnangagwa's Plan

Zimbabwe Independent, 13 April 2017

THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) -- which includes top judges -- is resisting Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Constitutional Amendment (No 1 Bill) 2016 whose main agenda… Read more »
Zimbabwe: End of an Era..Chief Justice Chidyausiku - a Judge of the Revolution (2)

Financial Gazette, 9 March 2017

THE application which was also brought on behalf of other farmers sought to declare certain provisions of the Act to be unconstitutional. The matter came before Chidyausiku. He had… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Wants Zuma's Powers To Appoint Chief Justice

Legalbrief, 9 March 2017

In the week that President Jacob Zuma announced his pick for the second highest judicial position in South Africa, his Zimbabwean counterparts made it clear they are determined to… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Is Judicial Independence A Myth?

Financial Gazette, 19 January 2017

PERHAPS, not many statements have undermined the country's standing on the global stage in terms of the rule of law as much as the ZANU-PF government's comments in 2002 that it… Read more »