Justice Happias Zhou who presided over the Malaba case was also part of the judges interviewed to fill the Constitutional Court vacancies in 2020. He even came third in the interviews thereby securing his place in the Constitutional Court.

However, as a result of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (no 2), things didn’t turn out as expected. President Mnangagwa selected the judges to be part of the ConCourt and Justice Happias Zhou was excluded. Critics are not surprised by this move as it seems to consolidate what they previously said about the President reportedly using the amendment bill to increase his powers. We covered that school of thought in a previous article you can find here.

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The Judges to be sworn in were interviewed in 2020 following the Judicial Service Commission’s (JSC) public notice on these interviews. However, there was no further development of the issue since then. It would seem that the President waited until the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill (no 2) had sailed through.

Amendment Bill (no 2) allows the President to elect Judges without them going through any voting process. View the rest of the terms of the bill in this article. Critics have stated that the bill gives the President more power than a President in a so called Democratic nation should have.

This amendment bill is the same one that led to the recent back and forth in the Chief Justice Malaba Saga. You can read about it here.

The 5 Judges that will be sworn in today at 10 am by the Acting Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza at the Constitutional Court are:

1. Justice Rita Makarau
2. Justice Paddington Garwe
3.  Justice Bharat Patel
4. Justice Ben Hlatshwayo
5.  Justice Anne-Marie Gorowa

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