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Biti Guest of Honour at South Africa Law Society function
14 Apr 2017 at 21:59hrs | Views
PDP Party President Tendai Biti will deliver a key note address at the Annual General meeting of the South African Law Society on 21 April 2017.
The meeting which shall take place at an International Convention Centre in South Africa will be held under the theme "The State of the Profession-Looking Forward."
It will be against the context of the 20th anniversary of the South African Constitution. Mr Biti will speak to the challenges lawyers face practicing in a Constitutional democracy. He will draw parallels of the environment in South Africa with that in Zimbabwe where political interference is high even in the Judiciary.
The Law Society of South Africa will bring together its six constituent members –The Black Lawyers Association, the Cape Law Society, the Kwazulu Natal Law Society, the Law Society of Northern Provinces and the National Association of Democratic Lawyers.
The meetings will also be attended by all local lawyers of the hosting town; Mr Biti will be the guest of Honour.
He recently attended a conference in South Africa on the rights of prisoners where he made a presentation on the issue of those imprisoned for life's right to parole and the efforts to ascertain progressive clauses of the Constitution.
Mr Biti will soon explore the law around the right to vote in national elections for inmates. He is currently working with a number of Zimbabweans in diaspora to file an application on the right to vote for the people who live abroad.
Recognising all the hard work and commitment to human rights and constitutional law, the Law Society of South Africa through the Co-Chairpersons, Mvuzo Notyesi and Jan van Rensburg decided to give him the honour to address the august event of Legal Practitioners in the Republic of South Africa.
The People's Democratic Party is proud to have a leader of Mr Biti's ilk, his work is recognised the world over. In 2011 he was recognised as the best finance Minister on the continent after propelling the economy in Zimbabwe to a 12% growth rate, making it the fastest growing economy on the globe.
He was invited to prestigious institutions like the Centre for African Development where he was an expert on developing economies and fragile states. The President has also presented lectures on security sector reform at Universities in the United States of America.
Our party is therefore committed to providing thought leadership and top drawer solutions not only in Zimbabwe but the world over.
Source - PDP
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