Enoch Dumbutshena

Enoch Dumbutshena (20 April 1920 – 14 December 2000) was a distinguished Zimbabwean judge known for defending the independence of that country's judicial branch.

A former member of the International Commission of Jurists, he unsuccessfully attempted to launch a political career of his own in 1993 by founding the free-market Forum Party.

He was in private practice in Salisbury and Lusaka until 1980, when he became Zimbabwe's first black High Court Judge.

[1] He famously acquitted a group of six white Zimbabwe Air Force officers who had been tortured into confessing to participation in the sabotage of fighter aircraft.

"[1] He was a member of the African National Congress, and was refused a passport to travel to the US “due to prevailing conditions” in 1959.