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Thu 07 Jul 2008Court orders SA to pressure Mugabe over land seizures
SOUTH AFRICA:A SOUTH African court has given its government 60 days to bring pressure to bear on President Robert Mugabe's regime that will result in some form of remedy for a citizen dispossessed of farms during seizures of white-owned land in Zimbabwe.
In a landmark decision on Monday for South Africans whose Zimbabwe farms or businesses have been seized illegally, Judge Bill Prinsloo in the High Court criticised the government over its failure to help farmer Crawford von Abo, from the Free State, despite his repeated requests for diplomatic protection.
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