{"id":92404,"date":"2024-03-24T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/legal-controversy-surrounds-appointment-of-reza-as-zacc-chairperson"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:45:57","slug":"legal-controversy-surrounds-appointment-of-reza-as-zacc-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/legal-controversy-surrounds-appointment-of-reza-as-zacc-chairperson","title":{"rendered":"Legal Controversy Surrounds Appointment Of Reza As ZACC Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Lawyers argue that President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s appointment of Deputy Prosecutor-General Michael Reza as the new Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson, replacing Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, who now holds the position of Prosecutor-General, is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa appointed Reza in terms of Subsection 1 (a) of section 254 of the constitution.<\/p>\n

However, a lawyer who spoke to The NewsHawks said Reza does not have the required seven years of experience in legal practice to take that position.<\/p>\n

Any commissioner who is a lawyer must have seven years of legal practice or be eligible to be appointed a judge or has been a High Court or Supreme Court judge.<\/p>\n

However, Reza applied to join the Law Society of Zimbabwe to practice law in 2020 and registered the same year or in 2021 to become a lawyer.<\/p>\n

This means he only has three or four years of experience, which is not enough for him to become a ZACC commissioner or, worse still its chairperson.<\/p>\n

Reza holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of South Africa and a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the Midlands State University, but does not qualify to be a commissioner. Said the lawyer:<\/p>\n

President Mnangagwa\u2019s appointment of Reza as ZACC chair is unconstitutional; he is not qualified to be a ZACC commissioner as a lawyer in the first place because he doesn\u2019t have enough experience to be there.<\/p>\n

He needs to have seven years of experience \u2013 that means he has to be qualified to be a judge or has been a judge of the High Court or Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Even if we were to take the other requirement that one can be a commissioner if they have 10 years experience in investigating crime, which he probably has, the problem is that after the removal of Matanda-Moyo and Jessie Majome, there is no lawyer in the commission, moreso with the constitutionally required seven years experience.<\/p>\n

Majome, one of the commissioners who was qualified as a lawyer to be there, was appointed chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n

According to The NewsHawks, this is not the first time that Mnangagwa has repeatedly violated the constitution on appointments.<\/p>\n

In the past, he exceeded the constitutional limit by appointing additional unelected ministers to his cabinet. In each instance, he faced pressure to rectify the unlawful appointments.<\/p>\n

These actions have prompted inquiries into Mnangagwa\u2019s attention to detail and the calibre of legal and political guidance he receives.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Lawyers argue that President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s appointment of Deputy Prosecutor-General Michael Reza as the new Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson, replacing Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, who now holds the position of Prosecutor-General, is unconstitutional. Mnangagwa appointed Reza in terms of Subsection 1 (a) of section 254 of the constitution. 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