to assess the challenges facing staff in the discharge of their duties.
The commission’s tour comes in the wake of similar visits to six other provinces in the country.
JSC deputy secretary, Mr Rex Shana, who is leading the fact-finding team, on Tuesday confirmed the commission’s tour of court centres in the province.
“We have been moving around the provinces and this visit to Masvingo court centres is our seventh leg,” said Mr Shana.

“We are visiting the court centres to familiarise ourselves with the situation, which our staff is facing especially in their day to day operations.
“We have also noted that at some court centres here in Masvingo, some of our officers are grappling with an acute shortage of office space to an extent that in some cases up to eight officers are sharing a single office.”

Mr Shana said that after their visit to all the country’s 10 provinces to assess the situation at the court centres, requisite steps would be taken to address the situation on the ground.
He said they were going to request the Ministry of Finance to release funds for construction of new office blocks at those court centres where staff were grappling with a severe shortage of office space.

“After we have completed our visits to all the country’s provinces we will sit down and see how best we can improve the situation.
“In terms of shortage of office space for staff at the various court centres we will push for Treasury through the Ministry of Finance to release funds so that existing structures can be expanded or in other cases new buildings are built altogether,” said Mr Shana.

All the magistrates in Zimbabwe now fall under the Judicial Services Commission after they were removed from the civil service to join judges as a way of making sure that their conditions of service are improved.

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