Only reason why they are still holding Tundu Lissu is: They can
Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu gestures to his supporters as he arrives at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania May 19, 2025.
The good Old Boys who went to the Good Old Law School enjoyed all the courtroom drama whence grand old lawyers plied their trade like gladiators of Old Rome, only here their swords were changed into statutes, and their shields transformed into precedents and their counterattacks into counter affidavits, and coups de grace were sharpened into closing statements, pointed, mordant and lethal.
Every assault opened a wound in the opposite corner and the stabs are counted as points to be recovered in the course of the combat, until, in the fullness of time, each fighter was satisfied that they had had their fair share of gladiatorial wrestling, and that the umpires, the judges, were invited to rest and prepare their adjudication in the shape of a judgement,
