Zimbabwe: Zim land grab matter in ConCourt
source: News24
10/11/2008 22:05 – (SA)
Johannesburg – The Constitutional Court will hear arguments on whether the South African government should have provided diplomatic protection to a South African citizen who had land taken away by the Zimbabwean government, when it sits in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The Pretoria High Court ruled in July that the government had failed to consider and deal with Crawford von Abo’s application for diplomatic protection after his farms there were expropriated without compensation and he was arrested with a warrant for being on one of these farms.
The failure of the government to help him in respect of the violation of his rights in Zimbabwe was found to be inconsistent with South Africa’s Constitution, the judge found.
The respondents – the government, the president, the foreign affairs minister, trade and industry minister and justice minister – were constitutionally obliged to provide diplomatic protection for him and were ordered to take steps to remedy this.
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