By SOF Editor on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 11:49am
A South African civil rights group is taking legal action to try to enforce a court ruling that labeled Zimbabwe’s land distribution program illegal and racist.
Under the policy, farms owned or operated by white farmers were seized and turned over to blacks, who had been denied land under white rule.
The ruling condemning that policy was handed down by a South African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in 2008. But the group Afriforum says it has not been enforced and the practice continues.
“Afriforum had been approached by Zimbabwean farmers about six months ago. At th