{"id":3899,"date":"2021-05-16T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2021-05-16T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:01:31","slug":"prorrogacao-ilegal-do-mandato-do-presidente-da-suprema-corte-do-zimbabue-diz-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/05\/16\/prorrogacao-ilegal-do-mandato-do-presidente-da-suprema-corte-do-zimbabue-diz-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe leader\u2019s extension of chief justice tenure illegal, says court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zimbabwe-696x390-1.jpg\" src= https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zimbabwe-696x390-1.jpg alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: CGTN Africa <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nZimbabwe\u2019s High Court on Saturday (16\/05) ruled that President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s controversial extension of tenure of the country\u2019s top judge is illegal. Mnangagwa announced last week that he had extended Luke Malaba\u2019s term of office by five years, just hours before the Chief Justice was to due to retire, a move seen as aimed at consolidating the president\u2019s power. Three high court judges sat through Friday night (15\/05) as lawyers argued over the legality of the extension. The court ruled on Saturday that \u201cMalaba ceased being a judge and Chief Justice of Zimbabwe at 0000hrs on 15 May 2021\u201d. Malaba has been accused of favouring Mnangagwa\u2019s administration. He dismissed opposition leader Nelson Chamisa\u2019s presidential election petition following the 2018 vote.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.cgtn.com\/2021\/05\/16\/zimbabwe-leaders-extension-of-chief-justice-tenure-illegal-says-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: CGTN Africa Zimbabwe\u2019s High Court on Saturday (16\/05) ruled that President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s controversial extension of tenure of the country\u2019s top judge is illegal. Mnangagwa announced last week that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/05\/16\/prorrogacao-ilegal-do-mandato-do-presidente-da-suprema-corte-do-zimbabue-diz-tribunal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zimbabwe leader\u2019s extension of chief justice tenure illegal, says court<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[295,48],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}