The President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired Justice Ndewere from office with immediate effect.

The decision to dismiss Ndewere comes after the Tribunal completed its investigations.

The tribunal recommended the President to dismiss Ndewere from office for gross incompetence.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa suspended Justice Erica Ndewere in November and appointed a three-member tribunal to investigate her for alleged misconduct following a recommendation by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

The JSC accused Justice Ndewere of failure to clear her workload in reasonable time and failure to properly study the file on a thief’s conviction and sentence when she set aside a jail term.

During her trial at the tribunal, Justice Erica Ndewere denied the charges saying she is being victimised by the JSC for refusing to carry out illegal orders.

She denied allegations that she had 34 outstanding matters when she only had three and urged her accuser to provide the outstanding cases.