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Original Post Date: 2008-05-09 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Exactly. And South Africa is heading down that same road. Jan]
It was cynical to suggest property right violations in Zimbabwe should not be taken seriously, the Pretoria High Court was told on Thursday.
Peter Hodes SC, acting for Free State farmer Crawford von Abo, argued this would be tantamount to suggesting “there was no crisis in Zimbabwe”.
Von Abo is seeking a court order to force the government to take steps to compensate him for the millions of rands he lost when his 14 Zimbabwean farms were seized without compensation.
He wants the court to order the South African government to become a party to the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), so that he could pursue a compensation claim against the Zimbabwean government through international arbitration.
If the government failed to comply, Von Abo wants more than R80 million as compensation for his losses. He claimed the government had ignored his repeated requests for diplomatic protection.
Patric Mtshaulane SC, for the government, contended it was not wrong for a sovereign state to nationalise the property of its nationals, and that South Africa could not interfere.
He argued that it would be an academic exercise to join ICSID as Zimbabwe was unlikely to agree to arbitration of Von Abo’s dispute.
He said Von Abo’s properties were registered in the names of Zimbabwean companies or trusts and he was therefore not entitled to diplomatic protection.
Von Abo was in any event given diplomatic protection after his arrest in Zimbabwe in 2002, Mtshaulane said.
Hodes said argument that it would be futile to join ICSID had no merit as it denigrated the institution itself.
“Why would any State subscribe to it if it were to be a pointless institution?” he asked.
Judge Bill Prinsloo reserved judgment. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080508180705893C391256