WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2001-10-08 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 10/8/2001 6:43:46 PM
Top Judge says Mugabe engineered lawlessness
October 06 2001 at 12:43PM
Harare – A former senior judge of Zimbabwe’s high court has denounced
President Robert Mugabe’s regime as deliberately destroying the rule of
law in the country and the independence of its judiciary.
Michael Gillespie, 48, who resigned at the end of July, referred to
“the breakdown to mob rule” that had occurred in Zimbabwe in the last 20
months as the government “renounces its commitment to the rule of law”.
In remarks released in Harare on Saturday, he described Mugabe’s ruling
Zanu-PF party as “controlling acts of violence and intimidation
throughout the country”.
He referred to the “increasing breakdown of the rule of law engineered
by the executive (the government)”. His condemnation of the regime,
unprecedented by a judge in this country, came in his last ruling in
his five-year career.
Gillespie is ‘an unrepentant racist former Rhodesian’
“A judge who finds himself in the position where he is called upon to
administer the law only against political opponents of the government
and not against government supporters, faces the challenge to his
conscience, that is: whether he can still consider himself to sit as an
independent judge in an impartial court,” he said.
Gillespie’s outspoken remarks added to the furore over the state of the
country’s judiciary, following the forced resignation of
internationally respected former chief justice Anthony Gubbay and the
appointment of a new chief justice and three supreme court judges regarded as
close to Mugabe.
The regime’s campaign against the judiciary began late last year after
Gubbay’s court declared – for the third time – that Mugabe’s so-called
“fast-track resettlement programme”, in which 30 farm workers and nine
white farmers have been murdered by ruling party thugs, was illegal, and
ordered police to remove about 20 000 squatters from the 1 700 farms they
occupy.
The orders have been ignored. Gillespie is a third-generation
Zimbabwean and until his resignation on July 31, was one of five white judges
in a judiciary of 28 high court and supreme court judges. His departure was
the third in three months.
Information minister Jonathan Moyo has described Gillespie as “an
unrepentant racist former Rhodesian”. The judge’s departure was “really
good riddance to bad rubbish”. Earlier this year, Justice Minister Patrick
Chinamasa said it had been “a mistake to appoint white judges”. –
Sapa-DPA