adminchampions at the Pan-African Moot Court competition held in Tanzania last week.
This is the third time UZ has won the continental competition.
The winning team that comprised Taona Nyamakura, Tapiwa Mari and Tinashe Tanyanyiwa beat 10 teams from eight other African countries.
They competed with university students from Nigeria, Sierra Leon, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.
The team that returned home on Sunday with five trophies. Each one got a small trophy and a big floating trophy for the university.
Nyamakura got an additional trophy for being the best speaker at the competition.
He also won a three-month internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda early next year.
The UZ will on Monday be holding a reception where the trophies will be handed over to the institution’s authorities.
Judge President Justice George Chiweshe and some High Court judges are among the invited guests.
The competition was held in Arusha, Tanzania between November 12 and 19.
Dean of Studies in the Faculty of Law Mr Emmanuel Magade hailed the team for being good ambassadors of Zimbabwe.
“These three guys have made us proud.
“This is nothing short of phenomenal.
“It reflects the high standards the UZ has been able to attain over the years in spite of challenges that we face as an institution and the nation at large.
“We have resource shortages and we operate on the razor-thin resource base. Above all, we have proved to be the best law school in Africa.
“It shows we still have a high and credible education system. Our training methods are thorough and rigorous,” said Mr Magade.
Advocates Happias Zhou and Thabani Mpofu were coaching the team.
This is the third time the UZ has won the Pan African Moot Court Competitions since 2006.
In 2007, 2009 and 2011 UZ came first in the competitions while they were beaten in the finals last year.
The competition is an annual event that is held in November in Arusha.
To qualify for the Arusha Competition, UZ had to beat Midlands State University in the preliminary competition held at the High Court in Harare two months ago.
On their way to the finals, the three successfully competed against University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Catholic University
of East Africa (Uganda) and the University of Nairobi (Kenya).
In the semi-finals, UZ beat the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and in the finals they thrashed the University of Eggaton (Kenya).
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