Judging by the government's recent track record in obeying court orders, this looks more to me like a passing swipe than a heavy blow.
The government will most likely simply disregard the order and the judge has just become a candidate for early retirement.
The bank will still lose its security, the farmer will still lose his land.
As the mortgage security sounds in rem and the debt sounds in personam, the farmer will still owe the bank but as he is being driven out of the country, he will not be able to pay the debt and will eventually clear it by filing in bankruptcy wherever and whenever the bank catches up with him.
Africa Wins Again.
1 posted on
08/07/2002 4:50:55 PM PDT by
Clive
To: *AfricaWatch; Cincinatus' Wife; sarcasm; Travis McGee; happygrl; Byron_the_Aussie; robnoel; ...
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2 posted on
08/07/2002 4:51:37 PM PDT by
Clive
To: Clive
"Africa Wins Again"
No. Communism wins again. Too bad the U.S.of A. forgot that communism is the true enemy of freedom. Or perhaps we've incorporated it into our way of life without thinking about it.
To: Clive
But a pebble in a river. Mugabe will sweep it aside. Besides it wouldn't have helped too many people.
I do find it odd that it's okay to steal land from whites but not okay to steal it from the bank.
4 posted on
08/07/2002 5:03:28 PM PDT by
Bogey78O
To: Clive
What's the revised life expectancy of the judges sitting on the Harare High Court?
6 posted on
08/07/2002 5:10:55 PM PDT by
Dakmar
To: Clive
Africa Wins Again.
Victories like that have a funny way of coming back and biting the victors.
7 posted on
08/07/2002 5:13:09 PM PDT by
Dakmar
To: Clive
The rule of law in Zim is whatever Mugabe says it is.
9 posted on
08/07/2002 5:58:18 PM PDT by
45Auto
To: Clive
"The farmers must challenge the evictions in court and I believe we will win this case," former Rhodesian premier Ian Smith told the Financial GazetteWhat's this guy smoking?
To: Clive
the white farmers should simply take their case against Mugabe to the International Criminal Court, where fair minded U.N. Members can defend their rights and redress their grievences....
oh, I'm sorry, that was the crack pipe talking again.
To: AnnaZ; Mercuria
THIS nation's Office of Tourism is promoting itself at the Celebrity Shoot?
16 posted on
08/07/2002 10:30:28 PM PDT by
Askel5
To: Clive
Zimbabwean banks and other financial institutions that support commercial agriculture also stand to lose nearly $12 billion because the chaotic land reforms will bankrupt many farmers. It appears that Comrade Bob is determined to follow the path of Pol Pot and institute Year Zero.
17 posted on
08/08/2002 1:16:43 AM PDT by
happygrl
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