White farmers to approach SADC
13/11/2007 10:32  - (SA)  

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Harare - A Zimbabwean rights organisation advocating the plight of white farmers evicted of their land by the government's land reform programme, says it will take the case to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal.

Justice for Agriculture's decision to resort to the tribunal was spurred by a Supreme Court ruling that the government could acquire all farming equipment and machinery belonging to evicted white farmers, reports The Zimbabwean.

According to John Worswick of the JAG, they would take their case to the African Commission on Human and People's rights, a statutory body of the African Union in Gambia.

President Robert Mugabe launched the government's fast-track land reform programme in 2000, but many white farmers warehoused their farming equipment and machinery before or after their land had been redistributed.

 

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