Zimbabwe: Minister Mutasa takes white farmers to court for defying eviction orders

Two white commercial farmers have become the first to be tried for defying eviction orders after they appeared in a Karoi magistrates’ court. Although Izak Daniel Nel and Gert Cornelius Terblanche, who are brothers-in-law, won an interim order three months ago to stay on their farms, State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa is reported to have personally issued them with a 90 day eviction order. The order was handed to them four days after winning the temporary reprieve by the High Court.