Moses Hungwe Chinhengo

Moses Hungwe Chinhengo (* 29. October 1955 in Masvingo ) is from Zimbabwe derived lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court of Botswana .

Chinhengo graduated from the University of Zimbabwe in law with a bachelor's degree in 1984 . During his studies he worked for Munich Re in Johannesburg and became politically active in the Zimbabwe African National Union of Robert Mugabe . After this had won the elections in 1980, Chinhengo was Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Justice and Foreign Affairs. He held this post until 1982. The following year he was promoted to head of the Parliamentary Affairs department in the now independent Ministry of Justice. In 1989 he switched to the private sector and initially worked for an investment company and then for an insurance group in Zimbabwe. Before he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court in his home country on March 22, 1996, Chinhengo was a lawyer in Harare . In 1999 he was part of a group of five lawyers drafting a new constitution for Zimbabwe. However, this was rejected by a majority in a referendum in 2000. In 2002 he was nominated by his home country for election as judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea , but failed with this candidacy. He held the post of judge at the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe until his resignation in 2004. That same year he was appointed judge at the Botswana Supreme Court. Chinhengo has been a member of the International Legal Commission since 2009 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on the website of the International Commission of Jurists , accessed on February 10, 2012.