{"id":778,"date":"2010-04-13T05:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2010-04-12T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:44:59","slug":"white-zimbabwean-farmers-to-get-justice-in-south-africa-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"White Zimbabwean Farmers To Get Justice In South Africa II"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Ainsley Brown<\/em><\/p>\n

As previously reported in another post<\/a>, four white farmers who had their farms unlawfully seized under the regime of\u00a0President Robert Mugabe <\/a>are to seek and by all accounts gain compensation in South Africa. Well, I am please to report that the farmers have indeed gotten \u2013 some measure of – justice in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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Symbolic victory.....they matter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Justice for the farmers comes in the form of the seizure of a property owned by the Zimbabwean government located in Cape Town, this after a South African court ruling allowing this property and perhaps others to be attached and likewise seized. The South African ruling was a move at the enforcement of a Southern African Development Community <\/a>(SADC) tribunal\u2019s ruling that found that the Zimbabwean government\u2019s seizures of white owned farms illegal and racist.<\/p>\n

The property in no way comes close to reflecting the full value of the farms seized but it does represent a very important symbolic victory for the farmers \u2013 and yes symbols do matter.<\/p>\n

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