Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights member Jeremiah Bamu is representing the former farm workers who were employed at a farm in Mazowe before it was compulsorily gazetted and acquired in September 2000 under the Government Gazette Extraordinary Volume Number 45 General Notice 439/2000.
The workers did not vacate the farm and had been charged with contravening section 3(1) as read with section 3 (4) of the Gazetted Lands (Consequential Provisions) Act. Â The matter went for trial and after trial the workers were convicted in August 2015.
In this application, Yoramu and others are now challenging the constitutionality of section 3(5) of the Act on the grounds that it violates section 74 of the Constitution that guarantees freedom from arbitrary eviction.
18.7.2016
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Former farm workers challenge eviction
THE High Court has set down the appeal hearing of Benias Yoramu and 41 others who are challenging the constitutionality of section 3(5) of the Gazetted Land (Consequential Provisions) Act [Chapter 20:28] The case will be heard on Monday 18 July 2016.