{"id":233415,"date":"2026-05-16T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gwaunza-appointed-chief-justice-as-malaba-retires\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:30:10","slug":"zimbabwe-gwaunza-appointed-chief-justice-as-malaba-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gwaunza-appointed-chief-justice-as-malaba-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Gwaunza Appointed Chief Justice As Malaba Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza as Chief Justice following the retirement of Chief Justice Luke Malaba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Gwaunza who had been serving as Deputy Chief Justice becomes the first Zimbabwean female Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a statement issued Thursday, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya announced the appointment which takes effect from May 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Presidency also announced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150051.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza as Chief Justice following the retirement of Chief Justice Luke Malaba. Gwaunza who had been serving as Deputy Chief Justice becomes the first Zimbabwean female Chief Justice. In a statement issued Thursday, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya announced the appointment which takes effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10924,6510,54402,6852,33161,257,12507,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-233415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed","tag-chief","tag-gwaunza","tag-justice","tag-malaba","tag-news","tag-retires","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}