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Zimbabwean farmers win legal battle in North Gauteng High Court

Posted by ZDN on June 7, 2011

AfriForum - Media Release - 6 June 2011 While white farmers in Zimbabwe are still facing persecution and oppression, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled in favour of three Zimbabwean farmers today in the case dealing with the seizure of Zimbabwean assets in South Africa. The case concerned an application brought by the Zimbabwean government last year to reverse the seizure of Zim...

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SADC Tribunal Rights Watch – Statement

Posted by ZDN on May 26, 2011

25 May 2011 – Africa Day THE SUSPENSION OF THE SADC TRIBUNAL HAS SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE REGION SADC Tribunal Rights Watch is deeply shocked at the decision taken at the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of SADC in Namibia on May 20 to dissolve the region’s internationally respected human rights court, the SADC Tribunal, for another ...

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Zimbabwe: Black commercial farmer wants SADC Tribunal reinstated

Posted by ZDN on May 20, 2011

On the eve of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State in Namibia (20/21 May), a dispossessed black commercial farmer from Zimbabwe who ran a successful agricultural enterprise is selling packets of sugar to feed his family. Luke Tembani (74), one of the first black commercial farmers after Zimbabwean independence in 1980, lost title to his farm i...

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New application to SADC Tribunal makes legal history

Posted by ZDN on April 4, 2011

SADC Tribunal Rights Watch 4 April 2011 For the first time in legal history, a group of heads of state is being cited by an individual as the respondent in an application to an international court – in this case the Southern Development Community (SADC) Tribunal - located in Windhoek, Namibia. Jeremy Gauntlett, SC, a leading South African advocate, filed the urgent application on b...

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Zimbabwe: Invasion of tourism facilities near Harare

Posted by ZDN on January 24, 2011

MEDIA RELEASE - 23 January 2011 In what looks to be the start of the next phase of state-sponsored property heists in Zimbabwe, over 20 tourism facilities have been invaded in Lake Chivero Recreational Park (formerly Lake Mcllwaine), 37 km south west of Harare. The lake is Harare’s main water supply and the surrounding land was declared a national park shortly after construction was comple...

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Auctioning of Zimbabwe government property in Cape Town to proceed

Posted by ZDN on November 23, 2010

MEDIA STATEMENT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Submitted by AfriForum 22 November 2010 Auctioning of Zimbabwe government property in Cape Town to proceed The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg today ruled that the Zimbabwe government-owned property situated at 28 Salisbury Road in Kenilworth, Cape Town, is of a commercial nature and may therefore be attached and auctioned to satisf...

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Statement by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe and President of the MDC Rt. Hon. Morgan Tsvangirai

Posted by ZDN on October 8, 2010

7 OCTOBER 2010 LADIES and Gentlemen, it is with some sadness that I have to make a statement today about the state of this transitional Government. It relates to the Constitution and Sovereignty of Zimbabwe, and the principles of democracy for which my Party and I stand for. The MDC utterly rejects the notion of one-party or one-man rule. The MDC utterly rejects any suggestion that power is...

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URGENT: Torture fears for Zimbabwean human rights defender Farai Maguwu

Posted by ZDN on June 13, 2010

URGENT: NEWS RELEASE FROM THE SOUTHERN AFRICA LITIGATION CENTRE (SALC) 12 June 2010 Torture Feared As Zimbabwean Human Rights Defender Farai Maguwu Illegally Taken from Harare Remand Prison by Police. Lawyers Denied Access Prominent Zimbabwean human rights defender, Farai Maguwu, was last night taken from Harare’s Remand Prison under orders of notorious Criminal Investigating Departme...

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Statement on intimidation in Epworth – Union for Sustainable Democracy

Posted by ZDN on May 27, 2010

Today, the Union for Sustainable Democracy sent a high-level undercover delegation into Epworth, a shanty town on the outskirts of Harare. We were dismayed by repeated accounts of how Zanu PF thugs are threatening to mete out violence on anyone who defies their formula for the constitution-making process. Epworth residents (names supplied) all spoke emotionally about how people in Epworth have ...

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Ignore Machel: Turn up the volume for violence-free and fair elections

Posted by ZDN on April 26, 2010

On behalf of the poorest and most vulnerable people of Zimbabwe, the Voice for Democracy applauds and says a big ‘thank you’ to Britain. Despite every provocation and insult from the Zimbabwean government, and because of Mugabe’s utter disregard for his own people, the British government has given Zimbabwe over $100 million in humanitarian assistance last year: from health care and education...