Zimbabweans are furious that their government spent thousands on judicial wigs while the country struggles under the weight of a financial crisis.
"The judicial wig tradition continues in Zimbabwe with all its costs and controversy, without any meaningful benefit to access to justice," Arnold Tsunga, Africa director at the International Commission of Jurists, wrote on Twitter.
Political writer Dr Chipo Dendere wrote:"We have got to start somewhere on the path to #decolonizethemind. Most of our systems are a direct result of colonialism but some traditions gotta go."reported that the wigs cost $3 274 each and were bought from Stanley Ley Legal Outfitters in England. Despite the ascension of Emmerson Mnangagwa to the Zimbabwean presidency after ousting Robert Mugabe, the country's economy is in slow-motion economic collapse, said the Financial Times.says the country faces a stark challenge of economic stabilisation and the country has an unsustainable fiscal deficit.
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