One of the sad legacies of the Mugabe regime is the abuse of Rule of Law and in the process create a room for disenfranchising sections of the population deemed anti-establishment.

A secondary feature, related to this or arising from the same is the selective application of justice even in civil cases not involving the state. Cases abound, some in the Supreme Court, where justice was seen to be done and was not done, especially when one of the parties was an employer and the other party an employee. Can this be a mainifestation of corruption in the judiciary or an inherent feature of the judiciary, that the monied elite get better treatment than the common majority.

The above flies in the face of equality before the law. I think the problem as things stand is the way in which the judges are appointed. Should we go the way where judges are elected officials, who must serve a term in office and go back to the populace for re-election, thus giving the ordinary man an opportunity of influencing the perfomance of judges, which at present is too elitist and pro establishment, to the detriment of the common man.