Grace Mugabe blocked from seizing farm

A Zimbabwean court has ruled against First Lady Grace Mugabe's attempt to seize another farm. High Court judge Felistus Chatukuta on Friday upheld an urgent chamber application filed by Mazowe villagers effectively interdicting the police from evicting them. A report on the News24 site notes that the villagers had occupied the property for the past 17 years courtesy of the government's controversial land reforms. However, police accompanied by government land officials on Wednesday started to demolish their homes without a court order and in flagrant violation of an earlier court order issued in 2015 barring the state from evicting them. 'The respondents (government and police) are hereby ordered to immediately restore possession ante ominia of the applicants (villagers) plots situated at Arnold Farm,' read part of the ruling.