In an interview with 263Chat, MDC Secretary General, Douglas Mwonzora slammed The minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi’s decision to turn down the request to issue a certificate of exemption to Nelson Chamisa’s South African lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett. Gauntlett who is a Senior Counsel (SC) and a Queen’s Counsel (QC) was supposed to argue a portion of Nelson Chamisa’s challenge of the presidential election results at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday.
Justice Minister Ziyambi said Gauntlett must apply for a work permit instead because he is from South Africa, which the minister deemed not to pass the test of reciprocity. However Mwonzora said Ziyambi is an amateur lawyer who does not know that Gauntlett is eligible and at one time represented the late Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe. Said Mwonzora:
Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is a very amateurish lawyer, is a very new lawyer and he may not know some of these things. I think he graduated about two, three years ago. The correct legal position is that those lawyers are eligible. Jeremy Gauntlett actual represented the late Morgan Tsvangirai in one of the petitions. He has been coming in and out of Zimbabwe and there is no reason why he should not be allowed to practice. A legal team is entitled to strengthen itself. Our view and the view of President Chamisa is that this is a case of both national and international importance.
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