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    by Published on 31st May 2011 06:33 AM

    Peta Thornycroft

    Zimbabwe's Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980.

    The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application.

    One of the farmers, ...
    by Published on 26th May 2011 09:47 AM

    By Alex Bell

    South Africa has joined the rest of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in appearing to protect Robert Mugabe’s unlawful land grab campaign, in another blow for dispossessed farmers.

    South Africa’s Constitutional Court has this week dismissed a final ...