Category: The Courts (archives)

Zimbabwe ministers accused of obstructing justice – (Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone) and (Didymus Mutasa) 2010 07 02 – http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?from=rss_&fArticleId=5539096   July 2, 2010 Zimbabwe police accused two ministers of obstructing justice by trying to release three men charged with pressuring a white businessman to surrender part of his company to them, a spokesman said …

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Police Impound Porusingazi truck Tangai Chipangura Police on Monday stopped the sale of 30 tonnes of maize by Ernest Porusingazi, son of a powerful Zanu PF official in Manicaland after a report had been made by a dispossessed white farmer that the maize had been stolen from his farm. Police impounded the 30 tonne truck …

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Evicted farmer plans High Court intervention SW Radio Africa news stories for 15 June 2010 By Alex Bell 15 June 2010 A commercial farmer forcibly evicted from his Chipinge property over the weekend is to seek the intervention of the High Court, to allow him back on his farm. Trevor Gifford, the former president of …

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Ex VP of farm union evicted from his land SW Radio Africa News Stories for 14 June 2010 By Lance Guma 14 June 2010 After the recent evictions of 16 white commercial farmers two more, including Trevor Gifford the former Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Vice President, took place on Sunday evening. The other farmer evicted …

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Didymus Mutasa orders villagers to defy court order NewsDay KELVIN JAKACHIRA – Jun 08 2010 11:13 Didymus Mutasa, a powerful figure in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF political party has instructed villagers occupying a tea and coffee estate in Chipinge to disregard a court ruling ordering them to vacatethe property. Mutasa, Minister of Presidential Affairs …

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White farmers living in ‘constant fear’ Zimbabwe Independent Thursday, 03 June 2010 19:09   The few remaining white commercial farmers say they are living in constant fear after repeated legal and political overtures failed to stop violent evictions, farmer representatives have said. Charles Taffs, the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Vice President told the Zimbabwe Independent …

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Sadc Tribunal To Hear Application To Refer Zim Government To Sadc Summit The Zimbabwean Zimbabwe: Today: Written by Staff reporter Tuesday, 01 June 2010 12:23 SADC Tribunal to hear application for a court order to refer the Zimbabwean government to the SADC Summit The SADC Tribunal in Windhoek sits again today, Tuesday 1 June, in …

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New spate of arrests rocks farming community By Alex Bell 31 May 2010 A new spate of arrests in the name of Robert Mugabe’s land ‘reform’ programme has rocked the country’s remaining commercial farming community, with at least four arrests since last Tuesday Most recently, last Friday police went to James Taylor’s Cedor Park Farm …

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Zimbabwean Government Boycotts Regional Tribunal Hearing on Farm Seizures VOA news Ntungamili Nkomo | Washington 01 June 2010 The tribunal was Tuesday asked to propose a special SADC summit to look at ongoing seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe under the controversial land reform program, which the applicants say are illegal The Zimbabwean government on …

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ONGOING ILLEGAL EVICTIONS OF FARMERS AT INYATHI S•A•C•F•A Southern African Commercial Farmers Alliance At 5.15 pm on the 25th May 2010 six truckloads of armed police arrived at Goff and Shirley Carbutt’s Oscardale Farm in the Inyathi district of Matabeleland North. They surrounded the homestead and proceeded to arrest Goff for being in illegal occupation …

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