By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has blamed the MDC-Alliance for the weekend High Court anti-Malaba judgement which embarrassed has President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

High Court Judges, Justices Happius Zhou, Edith Mushore and Jesta Charehwa at the weekend ruled that incumbent judges of the senior courts could not benefit from an amendment to the Constitution extending their term limits.

The ruling had the effect of retiring Zimbabwe’s Chief Justice, Luke Malaba, who turned 70 — the legal retirement age — at midnight Saturday.

The court ruled that the amendment needs to be put to a public referendum and automatically reversed the reappointment last week of Chief Justice Luke Malaba by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

In a statement last night, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said MDC-Alliance was behind Mnangagwa’s weekend embarrassment.

“We are aware of certain members of the opposition, the MDC Alliance, who are being paid monthly allowances for causing turmoil in this country and for being arrested,” said Ziyambi.

“The time may now have come to expose all these malcontents and economic saboteurs who are not sleeping until they bring down the second Republic.
“We are going to poke the enemy in the eye and confront it,” he said.