By Own Correspondent- Speaking to EU and ICJ representatives who visited him at his offices at Mashonganyika Building in Harare recently, Chief Justice Luke Malaba said the rule of law can only be fully enforced through implementing strategies capacitating the judiciary.

Chief Justice Malaba said development partners were important in funding the projects to ensure the rule of law objective was fully achieved.

He said:

“We are very clear about rule of law obligation. We are clear about the role of the Judiciary in Government. We are also clear on the role of the court in enforcing the rule of law. The courts are the essence of the rule of law.

We can only give effect to that by training our magistrates, judges and other staff to ensure that our officers understand their role.

That is when we need the help, thus the coming in of our development partners to ensure we achieve our objectives,” he said.

Most importantly, we as JSC, have understood the role we play in this relationship. We are the ground runners. We are the people who must ensure that we are very clear about what we want.

Those who support us can only support us because we have clearly defined our policies. We have clearly defined our objectives as an organisation. We have clearly ensured that we maintain the values and that we measure ourselves against values, the best practice in the world.

When you come as organisations, we need to ensure that we meet each other at that level, the level of the best.”-StateMedia