£1,850 for a top! Zimbabwe spends huge sums of money to buy import judges to use wigs to provoke controversy
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The Zimbabwe Independent reported that the country’s Judicial Service Commission ordered 64 horsehair wigs from London suppliers, each selling for £1,850 (about RMB 16,210) for a total price of nearly £118,400 (about RMB 1.04 million).
The supplier confirmed to CNN on the 5th that the Zimbabwean government did have a special wig for the judges, but the number was “not as much as the independent reportâ€.
Despite this, Zimbabwe’s lawyers and activists expressed anger at the government’s profligacy. They believe that wearing expensive wigs by judges is a legacy of British colonialism and does not have any practical benefits for improving justice.
Beatrice Mtetwa, a lawyer in Harare, Zimbabwe, feels that the judge wearing the wigs prepared for whites does not seem to be decent, but rather ridiculous and ironic. She told the British Guardian: "What surprised me is that we have always kept anti-colonialism in our mouths, but our lives are more colonial than the colonists themselves."
Another lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, pointed out that legal practitioners should abandon tradition so that courts can be more easily accepted by ordinary people. "We should get rid of the old ideas of judges and make the court more human."
In addition to being dissatisfied with the tradition of wearing wigs, more people question whether the government's spending is wise.
The courts in Zimbabwe are overcrowded, the equipment is rudimentary, and the national economy is faltering. According to the World Food Program, 63% of the country's population lives below the poverty line and 5.3 million people are at risk of food shortages.
The government had promised to cut government spending to cope with rising food prices. However, UN experts warned on the 4th that economic policies aimed at solving the fiscal deficit are pushing the people of the country to poverty.
Hopewell Chin'ono, a well-known journalist and documentary filmmaker in Zimbabwe, wrote on Twitter: "The resource management in our country is simply terrible. The government can allocate £118,400 to buy wigs, but there is no money to buy the bandages needed for babies in hospitals. And drugs."
Judges in Commonwealth countries such as South Africa, Kenya and Australia have abandoned the habit of wearing wigs, even in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of the tradition, when judges are no longer wearing wigs in civil and family disputes. But in Malawi, Ghana, Zambia and the Caribbean, this practice is still in use.