Zimbabwean high school World and European moot court competition champions arrive back at the Robert Mugabe International airport in Harare, Thursday, July, 7, 2022. A history-making team of Zimbabwean high school students that became world and European moot court competition champions has been widely praised in a country where the education system is beset by poor funding, lack of materials and teachers’ strikes.
The 11-member Zimbabwean team of nine girls and two boys aged between 14 and 18 and drawn from different schools was crowned world champions last month after winning the International High School Moot Court competition held online at the end of May. A team from New York City came second in the competition where participants used fictional cases to simulate proceedings in the International Criminal Court pre-trial chambers.
“It is surreal and extraordinary,” said Simbi after returning from Romania, where the European competition was held. The southern African country’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in June invited the team to his official residence and presented them with $30,000 in cash following their victory in the high school competition. He described the latest win as “another victory for the pride of Zimbabwe.”The winning team received a rousing reception by hordes of schoolchildren, parents and supporters when they returned last week.
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