Justice must be accessible to all

The Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, with support from Denmark, is working towards ensuring that the poor, underprivileged and often disadvantaged people have access to justice.

According to Walter Chikwanha, the provincial magistrate in the chief magistrates’ office in Murehwa, magistrates courts are supposed to be accessible to the indigenous people of Zimbabwe, the majority of whom live in the rural areas.

“We’re planning to visit different areas to hold courts so that we can save litigants the expenses of travel (to attend centralised courts),” he said during a tour of the new regional court complex in Murehwa.

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