JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE 23 ____________________________________________________________________ me. When they left, I fled from the office and as we speak, I am still hiding in the bush.”29 Mr Mhungu also said that the windscreen of his car was smashed during the attack. He said he had fled Chipinge and sought refuge in Masvingo. He said: “I have evacuated my family and will only go back after the police have made an undertaking to normalise the situation in Chipinge.” It was reported in August 2002 that Mr Jeremy Callow, the Harare legal practitioner who has acted for a number of commercial farmers who have challenged the seizure of their farms received a death threat from an anonymous caller. When he appeared in court to represent more farmers he told a High Court judge that he had been warned that if he went to Karoi again he would be killed. “Someone called me at about 06:25 am on Monday and told me that if they see me going to Karoi, they will kill me,” he said. He said he was worried about the threat in the light of the attack (detailed above) on court officials in Chipinge. Callow said he travelled to Karoi frequently to represent his clients in court. He said he had written a report on this incident which he would give to the police and the Law Society of Zimbabwe. 30 Topic 2 2. FLOUTING OF COURT ORDERS AND CONTEMPT FOR THE COURTS “We will respect judges where the judgments are true judgments. We do not expect that judges will use subjectivity in interpreting the law. We expect judges to be objective. We may not understand them in some cases but when a judge sits alone in his house or with his wife and says ‘this one is guilty of contempt’ that judgment should never be obeyed. I am not saying this because we would want to defy judges. In fact we have increased their salaries recently. But if they are not objective, don’t blame us when we defy them.” (President Mugabe speaking at a reception to mark the opening of Parliament.31)