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Following the arrest of Mr Moyo and Mr Mapombere on Monday over allegations of
subverting a constitutional Government, the sources said that there was a flurry of
activity in the British High Commission yesterday with meetings between MDC lawyers
and senior members, and high commission officials. … “Investigators are looking at a
huge paper trail pointing to heavy involvement by the British High Commission,” the
sources said.
On 14 June 2002 it published this article:
“Law Society Working To Further British Interests
When Professor Jonathan Moyo castigated the Law Society for its defence of white
judges, dilution of Zimbabwe's sovereignty and conjured notions of judicial
independence, he was being prophetic. The Law Society, true to form, has now shown
that instead of focusing on the defence of the marginalised citizens, its brief now appears
to be concentrating on holding meetings with High Commissioners of diplomatic
missions to map out strategies against the sovereignty and hard-won independence of the
country. At no time did we hear the Law Society criticise judicial decisions that went
against blacks. Instead, we have a litany of statements questioning why blacks are being
elevated to the bench.
After 22 years of independence, a black man still believes that only white people
should hold sway in the judiciary and that only they can pass judgment with impartiality.
Is this an inferiority complex on their part?
Professor Moyo was once quoted saying ‘Media reports attributed to the ever partisan
president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, Mr Sternford Moyo, allegedly calling for the
constitutional reforms to prevent the packing of the Supreme Court with pro-Government
judges’ is clear proof that the LSZ under Moyo has become an anti-Government, antiblack and British-sponsored organisation. ‘The LSZ’s position is that the bench should
be packed with anti-Government judges who are presumably white and steeped in
Rhodesian jurisprudence like the departed Anthony Gubbay and his fellow judges.’
Those words should have rung a warning bell and served as a harbinger of the
ominous revelation of the lawyers’ agenda, that of working to further white and British
interests.
Allegations that two members of the Law Society wrote to the British High
Commission are disturbing, to say the least, in that patriotism does not exist in their
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