Zimbabwe’s victimisation of SA investors in Zimbabwe

Published: August 27, 2009

Chiredzi(ZimEye) Zimbabwe’s government is victimising South African nationals who have invested in Zimbabwe. This has emerged after a once thriving and successful Chiredzi based farmer in possession of a Relief Order from the High Court of Zimbabwe was arrested on the 14th August by police for merely being on
his property.

In February, ZimEye revealed details of how top South African government
officials might be working with ZANU PF to unlawfully remove white farmers
off their productive farmland. The Chiredzi farmer who is a South African national is faced with a verbal threat of arrest from Police in Zimbabwe’s south eastern town of Chiredzi. Peter Henning, who has been farming in Chiredzi since 1965 had been in February informed that the Zimbabwe Republic police were after him on his farm and wanted to execute a warrant of arrest, the crime being for ‘occupying his own farmland.’

Five months later however, police arrived on the farm still without an arrest warrant and desperately took with them Henning’s son, Greig. It is reported that they only found this out that they had taken the wrong person once they were at the police station.

The fact that police were even not sure of the ‘criminal’ and there was no arrest warrant seems a clear reflection that an invisible hand was behind their actions, a common thing in President Robert Mugabe’s illegal land grabbing exercise, signs also that Zimbabwe’s government officials are using his South African nationality as an excuse to victimise him.

The farm, Holding No 40, Hippo Valley Estates, Chiredzi is situated in the once thriving sugarcane producing belt of Zimbabwe. It has also fallen victim to Robert Mugabe’s chaotic land grab process, begun nine years ago.

Henning is not alone in this harassment as many other farmers across the country are under threat from Robert Mugabe’s and his shenanigans, who are set on plundering and illegally possessing agricultural land.

Henning is a victim despite the fact that he is in possession of two High Court Relief Orders, issued in March 2003 and 30th August 2004 respectively, enabling him to “continue farming without interference from anyone”. As a direct result of Mugabe’s chaotic land grab ‘exercise’, Zimbabwe is faced with one the worst economic crisis in history with an estimated half population requiring food aid amidst the worst unemployment rates the country has ever had. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)

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Zimbabwe’s victimisation of SA investors in Zimbabwe

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