Auction of Zimbabwe government property in Cape Town to proceed on Monday
20 September 2015
International legal history will be made tomorrow, 21 September at 10:00 when the first sale in execution of a Zimbabwean property in South Africa will take place as a direct result of President Robert Mugabe's human rights abuses in his country.
AfriForum successfully assisted a group of dispossessed Zimbabwean commercial farmers to enforce a 2008 ruling by the Southern African Development Community’s regional court, the SADC Tribunal, in South Africa. The tribunal ruled that Mugabe's land grabs were unlawful, racist and in contravention of applicable international law.
After a five-year legal battle, a property belonging to the Zimbabwe government, number 28 Salisbury Road, Kenilworth, Cape Town, will be auctioned because the Zimbabwe government failed to honor cost orders of South Africa’s High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court.
AfriForum began assisting dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers and human rights activists in the country six years ago in a legal battle after Mugabe refused to comply with the order of the SADC Tribunal that his illegal land grabs had to stop.