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Afriforum says it is in the process of attaching three other properties on the Cape Peninsula belonging to the Zimbabwean government. The organisation has already attached a property worth R2.5 million in Kenilworth.

The money will be used as compensation to farmers whose land was seized under President Robert Mugabe's land reform programme. Afriforum lawyer, Willie Spies, says the three other properties are vacant: “What is happening today is the attachment of one property belonging to the Zimbabwean government which we identified as a property that is being used for commercial purposes. Its been leased by the Zimbabwean government to the third party individual and we have found that the value of the property will be sufficient to satisfy the order for costs that was granted by the Sadec tribunal in November 2009 as well as June 2009.”

The North Gauteng High Court last month upheld a ruling by the SADC Tribunal directing the Zimbabwe government to compensate farmers who have lost properties through land reform. Zimbabwe has ignored that ruling and its High Court has rejected the SADC tribunal judgment.