Indien daar tog nou en dan ‘n bepaling op die wetboek deurglip waarvoor daar nie ‘n skuiwergat beplan is nie en die een of ander “staatshoof” daardeur volgens hom benadeel word, is daar tog nog ‘n oplossing. Sou so ‘n staatshoof se teeparty in die hof slaag met ‘n aksie teen hom, is die oplossing eenvoudig! Stuur hulle almal saam  met die uitspraak warmplek toe! Daarmee is die saak dan afgehandel mits die uitvoerende gesag in sy greep is en daar vir die lojaliteit vergoed kan word.

As daar enige twyfel bestaan het oor waar die oorwig van mag in Afrika setel, by die staat of by die reg, lees dan die berig hier onder en bedink sommer ook die toestand in Suid Afrika.

ZIMBABWEAN COURTS CHALLENGED BY MUGABE’S BLATANT DISREGARD OF THEM

Saturday, 07 March 2015 02:49 Makusha

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has virtually told the courts - which have allowed the filing of a challenge by officials whom he fired from his party, to go to hell as his party would have none of it.

He told his supporters that the challenge by Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, who claim to still be spokesman and secretary of administration respectively of his Zanu (PF) party, was a waste of resources as no court could interfere with disciplinary matters of his party.

In an expression of total disregard for the rule of law, Mugabe said, even if a judge or magistrate was going to consider the matter for possible hearing, his party would question his or her educational qualifications.

(Left) VOA audio of Dewa Mavhinga of Human Rights Watch and Jeff Smith of RFK Centre taking the plight of Tokwe-Mukorsi displaced to the UN as human rights violations. Zimbabweans a perplexed that government is adding insult to injuries of these victims of bungled dam construction.

Meanwhile hundreds of opposition MDC-T supporters have slept at Zimbabwe Grounds guarding the venue for their President, Morgan Tsvangirai's rally against Zanu (PF) thugs who are highered by their party to disrupt such rallies. They are looking for hope at the rally which starts at 10am.  

His speech was reported in the national Herald which also said Zanu-PF had proper structures and a constitution to be followed when dealing with disciplinary matters.    

Speaking in the vernacular, he said, “Don't bother about those who think they can report the party to the courts, whoever told them that party policy and its constitution is subject to the courts?

"Even a jealous person or one who is aggrieved within the party, they go to through an appeal process, from branch, to district to Province, and the Politburo is the disciplinary committee.    “The case can then go to the Central Committee and to the kuCongress. As for the courts, any magistrate who wants to deal with such a case, I will ask him where he went to school," said Mugabe in blatant disregard of the Zimbabwean constitution which states that no person may be subjected to arbitrary process - thus clubs and even other parties with their own constitutions have been forced to appear before the courts.

Tens, if not hundreds of Zanu (PF) activists will be looking to this case with interest has they have been expelled from their party, some by mobs at rallies and others by pronouncements of Mugabe's wife.

The international community to which the Mugabe government is taking its begging bowl for fiscal support and investment funds, will also be keenly looking at how the courts handle this case.

The courts have in the past been accused of pronouncing at the beck and call of Mugabe who has final say in their appointments and whose government has doled out farms - even farms whose ownership was disputed - to some of the judges.