The Honorary Freedom of the City of London Award is a recognition of lifetime achievement or high international standing. Dallaglio Investments (Pvt) Ltd Chairman Mr. Sternford Moyo has been bestowed with the Freedom of the City of London for his unswerving commitment to the rule of law and contributions to the international legal profession in general. The granting of this award is extremely rare and generally given today only to royalty, heads of state or figures of global standing.
Mr. Moyo is the Chairman of one of the country’s biggest gold-producing companies Dallaglio Investments (Pvt) Ltd. He is also the Chairman and Senior Partner at Scanlen and Holderness law firm based in Harare. Mr. Moyo’s award was in recognition of his outstanding work as the President of the International Bar Association (IBA). Notably he is the first person from Africa to serve as IBA President.
In his remarks, Moyo said, “It is a great honour to receive from the London City Corporation this Freedom. In fact, it has been one of the most special events of my life. I regard London as my second home, and the International Bar Association has strong roots in England’s capital city. I want to thank the City of London, the IBA and the Law Society of England and Wales for their support, and Alderman Sir David Wootton for nominating me for this prestigious award.’
“It has been my good fortune to have met, and to be, working alongside such incredible colleagues as the IBA Officers here today, including Mark Ellis, who I have worked with now for more than twenty years following our first meeting in Harare where we discussed the rule of law, administration of justice and the independence of the judiciary in Zimbabwe. I could not have conceived two decades ago that today I would have the good fortune of being seated in this remarkable city, with my family and fellow upholders of the rule of law the recipient of such an accolade.”
Sir David Wootton, former Lord Mayor of the City of London, who nominated Mr. Moyo for the Freedom, said: ‘It is a pleasure to welcome Sternford Moyo as a Freeman of the City of London. As the first person from the continent of Africa to be elected President of the IBA, he has already contributed so much to the international legal sector, and his commitment to the rule of law is something very much shared by the City of London.”
Dallaglio as well as the wider mining community would like to congratulate Mr. Moyo on this outstanding achievement.