The new Zimbabwean government’s war on corruption: A lesson for anti-corruption and transitional justice scholars and practitioners?

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2019

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University of Western Cape

Abstract

There is ample academic writing and practical examples extending the principles of transitional justice to corruption. However, very little has been written on how a society’s existing anti-corruption mechanisms may be utilised in a manner compatible with the wider transitional justice processes. In Zimbabwe, the new government is taking a more rigorous approach towards anti-corruption than towards the protection of human rights, which is apparent in its pursuing corruption crimes but not crimes which violate physical integrity, such as torture, disappearances and killings. Using Zimbabwe as an example, this paper proposes ways in which transitional authorities could rely on anti-corruption mechanisms, yet go beyond them by addressing endemic corruption under the broader transitional justice mechanisms.

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War on corruption, Anti-corruption, Scholars, Practitioners, Zimbabwe

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Maguchu, P., & Maja, I. (2019). The new Zimbabwean government’s war on corruption: A lesson for anti-corruption and transitional justice scholars and practitioners?.Journal of Anti-Corruption Law, 3(1), 76-98.