Comments on: Compromised by politics? How the body that disciplines judges in Zambia has gone rogue

By: Gra due Weight

Gra due Weight — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:14:27 +0000

In reply to Daniel.

Who said this was an academic paper? It’s Sishuwa’s opinion and nothing to do with StellenBosch university.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:37:10 +0000

I just read the judgement report following the directions of Sishuwa. To me it is a very fair and reasonable judgement. Sishuwa must be very careful. Even his employers might take notice of his wiered reasoning and no employer would like to be associated with such. Sishuwa is simply unreasonable. He just needs to careful or his article will be the rope that he uses to hang himself in terms of career progression. There is nothing academic in those articles but childish behavior.

By: My Zambia

My Zambia — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:22:20 +0000

The constitutional court has handled several cases in from the time the institution was formed. Is it true that only the 2016 presidential dispute is what has cost them today? If the entire panel was unqualified or misconducted themselves, then all their past judgements must be null and void.

By: Razor

Razor — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:03:55 +0000

Maybe the way they were removed or the method used was wrong. But the way they were always ruling in favour of PF when it was in power including the fact that they ruled in favour of lungu going for the third term when in fact he had already been sworn in twice was also wrong. Let this be a lesson to all judges to always do the right thing and not what their paying masters want even if it means losing your job.

By: Fresha waku ma ruins

Fresha waku ma ruins — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:34:03 +0000

In reply to Musaninyoze.

The constitution definitely needs to be re-written. At present it is not DEMOCRATIC. It has given the President too much power. We are not China or Saudi Arabia. We removed Kaunda because we wanted a democracy

By: Fresha waku ma ruins

Fresha waku ma ruins — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:26:04 +0000

In reply to Mayo Mpapa.

Indeed why does the President have to be the one who promotes Judicial staff like Shilimi? The Judiciary’s adminstrative or operational chores should be done internally. That can only mean the President has very wrongly been given power to meddle in the Judiciary. It certainly cant be democratic.
I thought John Sangwa had argued that the judges in this court did not meet minimum requirements such as 15 years experience and he was dismissed.

By: Musaninyoze

Musaninyoze — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:35:10 +0000

Vincent Malambo is an honourable lawyer who cannot be bought. He recognised that his client HH was behind these shenanigans and could not be party to it. These judges may not have been qualified to sit on the Constitutional court, that we know because John Sangwa wrote about it- but the system is so broken that politics trumps the law. In Zambia, the President can ride rough shod over the constitution and his ape MPs and judges will cast a blind eye and rubber stamp everything. We need to make this impossible in a new constitution.

By: Angoni

Angoni — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:46:14 +0000

Cry mother Zambia the actions of one man will plunge this country into problems for generations to come it’s going to be difficult to unite this country at the rate we are going

By: Eagle's Eye

Eagle's Eye — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:26:41 +0000

In reply to independent.

@independent,,,In 2016, the Concourt judges just sat back and waited for the 10 or so period before claiming that time for hearing the petition had elapsed. Meanwhile, Max Chongu and his band of rascals were camped at the twin roundabouts opposite the concourt waiting to literary lynch HH if he showed up. Plain recklessness by ECL who was complicit in the whole thing!

By: MuZambian

MuZambian — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:02:45 +0000

In reply to Mayo Mpapa.

I agree.Sishuwa seems to be on tera feme only as an academician and historian .In reality, however ,he fails to note that a constitution all over the world is a political document crafted by politicians and not the masses whose views it claims to present. The difference between the powers that be between us and those in the developed (civilized) world is that, those fellows have developed an advanced culture of conscientiousness and restraint such that their checks and balances in governance seem miraculous. These values and virtues you do not acquire by books alone. They are too subtle and fliting for dullards like DejaFooool to discern