The Report on the Practice of Zimbabwe (1998) asserts that the incorporation of Article 43 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I into national legislation by the 1981 Geneva Conventions Act as amended “is evidence of [Zimbabwe’s] view that [it represents] customary international law”. 

The Report on the Practice of Zimbabwe considers that the definition of combatants in Article 43(2) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I is regarded as customary by Zimbabwe in the context of an international armed conflict.