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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 17:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Alex Bell
The South African government has stated that it will appeal a court’s decision to attach Zimbabwean assets as compensation for farmers, after a multi million rand property was seized by lawyers last week.
The property was one of four identified by civil rights initiative AfriForum, to be ‘attached’ as possible compensation for South African farmers who have lost land in Robert Mugabe’s land ‘reform’ programme. A 2008 regional ruling declaring his land ‘reform’ program as ‘unlawful’ has been ignored and legally dismissed in Zimbabwe. Farmers approached AfriForum to have that same ruling, made by the human rights court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), registered in South Africa.
Judge Garth Rabie last month ruled in favour of the farmers, stating that the SADC Tribunal ruling, including a later order to pay costs to the farmers, should be honoured. AfriForum has since been seeking what Zimbabwean assets can be attached to settle these costs and has identified four properties in Cape Town. The R2,5 million house in the Cape Town suburb of Kenilworth was attached by the sheriff’s office last Tuesday, meaning it could now be auctioned off by the farmers to cover their legal costs.
But the South African government is apparently appealing the decision. The Foreign Affairs head of diplomacy, Kgmotso Molobi, confirmed this last Friday, but refused to give details, saying the matter was ‘before the courts’. But AfriForum’s legal representative Willie Spies has said he will tackle the government if the appeal goes ahead.
“If they challenge this, then obviously we will oppose the challenge,” he said.
Meanwhile Zimbabwe’s Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has once again dismissed the court decision and the attachment of the property, insisting that it was protected by ‘diplomatic immunity’. Chinamasa has previously dismissed AfriForum’s efforts to attach the properties as “nothing more than political grandstanding.” But AfriForum’s legal representative Spies has explained that the Kenilworth home was not protected by diplomatic immunity because the property was being rented out, making it a commercial property.
Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004061134.html?viewall=1