About Advocate Matsikidze
RODGERS Matsikidze is a registered legal practitioner, notary public and conveyancer. He holds an LLB (Hons) and MPhil Law from the University of Zimbabwe focusing on access to justice in the magistrate's courts of Zimbabwe.
Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Law focusing on access to justice in the superior courts of Zimbabwe with the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Matsikidze graduated in September 2005 and rose through ranks from being a teaching assistant to a legal proctor, acting director and lecturer until 2015. Currently, he is the Deputy Dean of Law at the University of Zimbabwe.
He is also a lecturer in Civil Procedure Courses-lower and superior courts, and co-teaches Labour Law and Roman-Roman-Dutch Law. Under the department of commercial law, he teaches Alternative Dispute Courses-Conciliation, mediation and arbitration. Matsikidze is also the Director for the Access to Justice Centre which is a legal aid clinic, industrial attachment, teaching unit and research hub on access to justice issues.
He is a former chairperson for the department of Procedural Law at the University of Zimbabwe. Matsikidze is also a former Trustee and former Chairperson of Trustees of the Law Society of Zimbabwe Compensation Fund and a Councillor and Chairman Board of Examiners with the Council for Legal Education in Zimbabwe.
On several occasions Matsikidze is called to train lawyers under the Law Society of Zimbabwe Continuous Professional Development Programme and Council for Legal Education. He is currently the founding partner and managing partner of Matsikidze: Attorneys-at-Law, Global Investments| Commercial |Labour Attorneys (from the demerged partnership before) which has been in existence for over a decade.
In addition, he is an arbitrator in labour, commercial, political, land and socio-economic disputes and is the author of the only comprehensive textbook dedicated to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Zimbabwe titled: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Zimbabwe: A Practical Approach to Conciliation, Arbitration, Mediation and Negotiations in Zimbabwe. He has written other books in civil procedure, medical, mercantile, natural resources and environmental law although some of the books are still under publication. In 2016-17, he was one of the two drafters of the Zero Labour Amendment Bill 2017 under the ILO-Government of Zimbabwe Labour Reform project. In 2017 again, the International Labour Organisation appointed him to do a, Rapid Assessment of Dispute resolution in Zimbabwe.
Matsikidze is a board member, Community Working Group on Health, a multi-stakeholder that deals with policy issues and programmes on Human Rights and Public Health. In 2017, he was appointed Board Chairperson-Harare Employment Council.
Matsikidze is a Law Examiner with the Estate Agents Council and Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe (REIZ). He chairs the Masvingo Mirror Newspaper Board.