Farm evictions
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Agriculture
SA: Western Cape says it ‘will firmly reject’ Zimbabwe-style land grabs
The Western Cape Government has confirmed it will firmly reject any action to amend the Constitution in a manner that would allow the redistribution of property without compensation. Land Expropriation is hurtling towards Parliamentary approval, and those in opposition to the policy are running out of time to halt the process. In Zimbabwe’s fast-track land resettlement programme of the early 2000s,…
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Agriculture
Govt makes first ever payment to compensate white farmers
GOVERNMENT has made its first compensation payment as part of an agreement to settle a dispute with white commercial farmers who had their land seized two decades ago. The state-linked Kuvimba Mining House Ltd. transfered US$1 million to the farmers as the government asked for a delay in paying the full US$3,5 billion compensation it had agreed to a year…
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Agriculture
Jonathan Moyo’s Mazowe farm case thrown out
AN attempt by former minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and his wife Beatrice to block a man allocated land on their Mazowe farm which the Government is seeking to repossess was thrown out because the judge found the application not urgent and defective. The couple went to the High Court early this year contesting the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and…
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