Businessman takes on SA Government over Mugabe seizures

Mutumwa Mawere\'s application follows a decision by the Constitutional Court barring him from seeking direct access to the top court. He had sought a hearing by the country\'s leading judges in a case in which he accused the government of being complicit in illegal property seizures because it had allowed SA institutions to enforce Zimbabwe\'s controversial nationalisation laws. Business Report notes that after seizing his mining, telecommunications and banking empire in Zimbabwe, Mawere claims, Mugabe\'s government filed suits liquidating his subsidiary firms based in SA. By allowing Mugabe\'s representatives to use SA courts and other institutions to enforce draconian property seizure laws, the government has given effect to ‘Mugabe\'s principles’, which are ‘repugnant to the values that inform the SA constitutional order’, Mawere argues in his application. Full report in Business Report