Ruling allows Harare asset seizures

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Pretoria - The North Gauteng Court in Pretoria on Monday rejected an application by the Zimbabwean government to prevent its assets being sold to compensate farmers who suffered land grabs.

The three farmers - Louis Fick, Richard Etheredge and the late Mike Campbell - last year seized Zimbabwean government assets in Cape Town.

They had lost their farms in Zimbabwe's controversial land seizures.

A statement released by AfriForum, which was assisting the three farmers, said the court's rejection of the Zimbabwean government's application to prevent the seizure, paved the way for the properties to be sold.

The tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ruled in November 2008 that Zimbabwe's land reform processes were racist and illegal, and that farmers ought to have been compensated for their farms.

The tribunbal's ruling allowed for the registration and enforcement of the tribunal's orders in SADC member countries.

AfriForum assisted the three farmers to have the tribunal's orders registered at the North Gauteng High Court and three Zimbabwean properties no longer used for diplomatic purposes were seized.

The Zimbabwean government opposed the seizure.

"The ruling is of historic significance. For probably the first time in international legal history, a court ruled that the assets of a country guilty of human rights violations must be sold at public auction," said AfriForum's lawyer Willie Spies, who represented the farmers.

He said arrangements were being made to sell the properties at a public auction as soon as possible.

All three farmers were violently expelled from their farms. Campbell, who was severely beaten up by farm invaders, died in April 2011.
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its a bit late.. but hell its still funny as hell..

I reckon bobby is fuming in his little palace in Harare.
 
A little bit of Justice. Nice to see. Wish there could be Justice for the farmers and workers (black and white) who were murdered on their land there in Zimbabwe. :(
 
Will Bob even care? Sure it's a dent in the coffers, but I bet it's only a very small one. And none of it will change anything. People died, and even though a SA court found that it was human rights abuse, the SA government are doing SFA about it.
 
Zuma must release Zimbabwe elections report

Ronjay said:
Will Bob even care? Sure it's a dent in the coffers, but I bet it's only a very small one. And none of it will change anything. People died, and even though a SA court found that it was human rights abuse, the SA government are doing SFA about it.
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Comrade Bob is safe with his ANC cronies.

Zuma must release Zimbabwe elections report
http://mg.co.za/specialreport/2002-zimbabwe-election-report

The M&G requested a copy of the report from the presidency in June 2008 under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) but this request was denied.

The Presidency argued that it was not obliged to release the report on the ground that it would reveal information supplied by Zimbabwean government officials in confidence. The M&G maintain that, although several years had passed since the election, the report might provide information about whether the elections were free and fair, as South Africa at the time declared they were. This had a bearing on both the legitimacy of Mugabe's presidency and the 2011 Zimbabwe presidential elections.
 
Meanwhile the ANC conducts its own form of abuse on its citizens. The ruling is good in principle and fact, but it means nothing for the greater masses who lost all and sundry in Zim.
Additionally, the above post proves the PAIA is yet another ANC legislation that applies only to some, not to all!
 
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