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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2021
Chapter 1 expands on the relationship between history, law and politics in Zimbabwe. It traces historical trends in the mobilisation of law’s coercive power by consecutive colonial and post-colonial governments, locates the development of legal consciousness in citizens’ relations to the colonial legal system and examines debates over ‘professionalism’ and ‘justice’ between the executive and the judiciary, and within the judiciary itself. It then situates the attacks on members of the judiciary and the rule of law after 2000 in the context of ZANU-PF’s mobilisation of a selective historical narrative, its ‘patriotic history’, to argue that conceptualisations of justice took on fundamentally new forms which shape the understandings of the legitimacy of law and its relation to state authority explored within this thesis, but which are rooted in this longer history.
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