The Voice Online News HARARE – HIGH Court judge Munamato Mutevedzi has abandoned a case in which a Gweru farmer is challenging the seizure of her farm by government saying the matter was too political to be handled by his court.
Mutevedzi said courts have no jurisdiction to hear cases involving seizure of land from Zimbabweans by the government as the matters are political rather than legal.
He took the position after a Gweru farmer, Frances Mary Bowers sued the Lands Ministry accusing it of illegally seizing her farm.
Mutevedzi ruled he was not allowed to deal with such matters.
“The question whether agricultural land owned by an indigenous Zimbabwean can be expropriated under the land reform programme is a political rather than a legal question,” he said.
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