Section 9, Land Acquisition Act (consolidated to 10-5-02)
9 Eviction of owner or occupier
(1) The following provisions shall, subject to subsection (5) of section 7 and subsections (2), (3), (4) and (7) of section 8, apply to the vacation by the owner or occupier of land acquired in terms of this Act-
(a) in relation to land other than agricultural land required for resettlement purposes, any person who, immediately prior to the date on which an order is made in terms of subsection (1) section 8, owned, occupied, held or used the land to which such order relates shall, if so required by not less than three months' notice in writing by the acquiring authority, cease to occupy, hold or use that land, and if he fails to do so, he shall be liable to be evicted by order of a competent court;
(b) in relation to any agricultural land required for resettlement purposes, the making of an order in terms of subsection (1) of section 8 shall constitute notice in writing to the owner or occupier to cease to occupy, hold or use that land 45 days after the date of service of the order upon the owner or occupier, and if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment: Provided that
(i) the owner or occupier of that land may remain in occupation of his living quarters on that land for a period of not more than 90 days after the date of service of the order;
(ii) the owner or occupier shall cease to occupy his living quarters after the period referred to in proviso
(i), and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2) A court which has convicted a person of an offence in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) or proviso (ii) thereto shall issue an order to evict the person convicted from the land to which the offence relates.
As you can see, the Act does not just order a farmer to stop farming. It totally denies him the use of his land for any purpose, except a licence to remain in his home for the next 45 days.
In my interpretation, he cannot exclude any person from his land and he cannot even take measures to protect the land, its crops, its livestock its feed stocks or its water supply.
1 posted on
06/23/2002 7:53:19 PM PDT by
Clive
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2 posted on
06/23/2002 7:54:00 PM PDT by
Clive
To: Clive
Donors say the food shortages now affecting millions of Zimbabweans are directly linked to the often chaotic redistribution of land. But the government says that by taking land from white farmers and giving it to landless black peasants, it is ensuring greater self-sufficiency in the future.
I'm sure others have already pointed this out - but really waht do they think they are going to accomplish by all this? How does this action result in greater self-sufficiency if any at all? My God - is this just "payback" ?
3 posted on
06/23/2002 7:57:06 PM PDT by
oline
To: Clive
And where is Amnisty International on this?
To: Clive
But the government says that by taking land from white farmers and giving it to landless black peasants, it is ensuring greater self-sufficiency in the future.Note: If everybody dies in the first year of starvation, because there are no crops that year, it doesn't ensure self-sufficiency because there are no "selfs" to take care of themselves beginning in year 2.
7 posted on
06/23/2002 8:01:53 PM PDT by
coloradan
To: Clive
brace youselves,the US taxpayer is going to be asked, no forced, to buy food for these fools.
To: Clive
Let me get this straight, the gov't is telling farmers to not produce food in a country that is in the midst of a famine? Am I missing something?
11 posted on
06/23/2002 8:05:24 PM PDT by
TheDon
To: Clive
The white Zimbabwe farmers must stop farming, and the gullible American Government and people must stop sending food.
To: Clive
The welfare recipent blacks are awarded the land stolen from the welfare financing whites-the economy goes to hell-but is then subsidized by the tax paying whites of the United States.
Ever wonder what the world would be like if the continent of Africa had never been discovered? Who would have thought that immunity from sun burn would also guarantee immunity from responsibility?
To: Clive
My oh my oh my oh my.....
What on God's green earth would civilized human beings still be doing in a sickening third world sewer like Zimbabwe? These white farmers are simply begging to be slaughtered by Mugabe's savages. There comes a time to finally "cut bait" and that time came and went long ago in Zimbabwe.
To: Clive
White in Zimbabwe need to get a clue and get out. The place is doomed. Nothing will save it now.
18 posted on
06/23/2002 8:16:47 PM PDT by
Ronin
To: Clive
It's bugout time. Pack a grip and get out. To anywhere, for now, then to Oz or the US or the UK. But for God's sake, get out.
We should spend not one penny, nor give a morsel of food, to the thugs now running Rhodesia. Sad for the ordinary people, who really havent' a clue what's going on, I'm sure, but the affront to the rule of law is intolerable. Time to make an example: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. Well, time to get it good and hard in Rhodesia.
To: Clive
If I were having my land taken away by force,
it would probably have an
'accidental' salting, or arsenic, or gasoline spread
across all of the land.
To: Clive
The self induced famine of the early to mid 1930's in the Soviet Union weighs heavily on my mind. Mugabe takes another Marxist tactic to its intended disastrous conclusion. How nice(sarcasm).
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ping
To: Clive
How sad it is to see hard working people taken from their land. And how sad it is to see a government that is throwing darts at a bord to pick what they do next to tear down their own country. Can't they see that they are digging their own grave and not anyone else. Even people who have no governmental/political background can see what stupidity lies in the Zimbabwe government.
To: Clive
One of the first steps in denying freedom is to deny property rights. With the new Act, it appears that there is no recourse for the landowners.
As stated in the article, the landowmer's appeared defiant, but there is little they can do. Too bad there is not an uprising. It is time for this to stop in Africa.
To: Clive
Somebody should point out to them that "Your divirsity is your strength.".
To: Clive
bttt
61 posted on
06/24/2002 6:34:18 AM PDT by
lodwick
To: Clive
For months now I have stated that the only solution for Zimbabwe will come from the barrel of a gun via gurilla war against Mugabe and the ZANU-PF monsters who benefit from his Kleptocracy. The advent of national canibalism is just arround the corner and everyone remaining in that nation will face a daily choice of eat or be eaten. The only beneficial aid we could give to Zimbabwe is arms and ammunition to the opponents of Mugabe but that will not happen because of the melanin content of Mugabe's skin.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
63 posted on
06/24/2002 6:43:51 AM PDT by
harpseal
To: Clive
Where is the stinking UN on this one? Where is stinking stumble bum Kofi Annan on this one?
66 posted on
06/24/2002 7:11:44 AM PDT by
dennisw
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