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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.

i wish all those white farmers & families in zimbabwe would come to america now.

I think if I were one of those farmers, before I left, I'd switch the signs on the fertilizer and weed killer storage tanks, then poion the well and sugar the gas tanks on any internal combustion engine on the farm. Then I would get the heck out of Zimbabwe as fast as I could.

and now the starvation of the black begins...

One said, you can't just wind up 50 years of work in 45 days.

The wiser ones have had over 20 years.

Alternate title:

Zimbabweans must stop eating

Robert Mugabe is a rabid crazed dog who does not bathe and he will bring the wonderful country to its early grave.

It is so sad to see his crazy mind set under way. Thanks, Jimmy Carter, you a$$hole.