SADC Tribunal inactive 17 years

SADC Tribunal still closed, 17 years after Campbell ruling

HARARE – Seventeen years after the landmark Campbell judgement, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal remains shut and its orders against Zimbabwe still ignored, a rights group said. The November 28, 2007, ruling in Mike Campbell and Others v. The Government of Zimbabwe found that Zimbabwe’s land seizures were unlawful, racially discriminatory, and carried out without due process. The Tribunal – then the region’s highest cou…

SADC Tribunal inactive 17 years

from ALFRED SHILONGO in Windhoek, NamibiaNamibia BureauWINDHOEK, (CAJ News) – LAST Friday marked the 17th anniversary of the landmark from the SADC Tribunal ruling in the case of Mike Campbell and Others v. the Government of Zimbabwe, a judgment that highlighted human rights violations and property injustices in Zimbabwe but remains unimplemented to this day. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal, established as the region’s…