By Dorrothy Moyo | If only my young brother Luke Malaba would just resign and leave power mongers fighting each other, elder and researcher Ibbo Mandaza has said.

Mandaza was commenting over the gaffe which has left Emmerson Mnangagwa humiliated after being ill advised under the impression that he can ReAppoint the former Chief Justice in the face of clear dictates in the constitution.

On Saturday, a bench of High Court judges ruled that Malaba’s last day in office was last Friday despite being handed the job by the ZANU PF President, Mnangagwa. Soon after that, the Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi stooped low to the point of threatening the judges saying they are supposed to pass verdicts that do not oppose Mr. Mnangagwa. Ziyambi has since announced that he will appeal the judgement.

But, “one would have thought, or are we asking for too much here, that my younger brother Malaba would simply resign, walk away into retirement, and leave the power mongers in the Zimbabwean state to their internecine conflict?,” said the SAPES Trust’s Ibbo Mandaza.

Mandaza is 73 years old while Malaba has only just turned 70 on Saturday. Meanwhile, below is a LIVE discussion over the verdict, held on Sunday evening.