A WHITE judge on Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court, Nicholas McNally, has given up his Zimbabwean citizenship and resumed his British one, a state newspaper said Thursday. “Justice McNally and his wife … recently surrendered their Zimbabwean passports to the registrar general’s office after securing British travel documents,” The Herald reported. McNally, who is due to retire from the bench next month, can continue living in Zimbabwe as a permanent resident. The government has given Zimbabweans who hold dual citizenship until January next year to renounce one of the two. The law affects an estimated 30 000 whites who hold Zimbabwe passports and have renounced their foreign nationality, but can still qualify for foreign citizenship. International legal groups have criticized the government for intimidating judges over their judgements on the country’s controversial land dispute. Former chief justice Anthony Gubbay was forced into early retirement this year following a run-in with government over his verdicts against the forcible acquisition of white-owned land under the land reform exercise. – AFP
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