{"id":54702,"date":"2022-02-15T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=54702"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:03:23","slug":"supreme-court-blocks-govt-from-repossessing-jonathan-moyos-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/supreme-court-blocks-govt-from-repossessing-jonathan-moyos-farm","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Blocks Govt From Repossessing Jonathan Moyo\u2019s Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Supreme Court has blocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s government from seizing exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo\u2019s farm in Mazowe.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo co-owns Patterson Farm in Mazowe with his wife, Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Chinembiri Bhunu, George Chiweshe and Joseph Musakwa, on appeal, overturned a High Court ruling dismissing Moyo\u2019s urgent application for an interdict against the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development and Barclos Mujuru.<\/p>\n<p>Majuru occupied a section of the farm in October 2020 saying he had been given an offer letter for a section of the property by the lands ministry. An interim order granted in favour of Moyo on Monday reads:<\/p>\n<p>Until a final decision relating to the rights of the parties can be made by this court under case number HC 290\/20, or the return date of this application, whichever happens sooner, the state of occupation by applicants in respect of the remainder of Patterson Farm in Mazowe shall not be interfered with by the respondents, its employees or assigns.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court after High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba had dismissed his application.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Muremba said Beatrice, who filed the founding affidavit, had no legal standing in the matter because the offer letter was issued to her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyers disagreed, arguing that she was an applicant in the pending application for review and was entitled to \u201cprotect the integrity of an application in which she is a party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the review application, Moyo and his wife are challenging the compulsory acquisition of their 623-hectare farm, which they bought for Z$6 million (US$105 400 at the time) from the government in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo\u2019s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu, instructed by Chris Mhike, argues that the seizure of the farm is not only unlawful but also \u201cmotivated by extraneous reasons that are political and mala fide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moyo fled to Kenya soon after the November 2017 military coup that overthrew then-President, Robert Mugabe. He said his life was in danger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Supreme Court has blocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s government from seizing exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo\u2019s farm in Mazowe. Moyo co-owns Patterson Farm in Mazowe with his wife, Beatrice. Justices Chinembiri Bhunu, George Chiweshe and Joseph Musakwa, on appeal, overturned a High Court ruling dismissing Moyo\u2019s urgent application for an interdict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,266,1112,1871,8628,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-54702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-farm","15":"tag-jonathan-moyo","16":"tag-mazowe","17":"tag-patterson-farm","18":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court Blocks Govt From Repossessing Jonathan Moyo\u2019s Farm - 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