ISDS Case Map
Zimbabwe
The European Union signed a temporary trade pact Saturday with Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe and Madagascar calling for tariffs on European goods to be removed over the next 15 years.
A bilateral investment treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa could not be signed last week after Harare requested more details on the accord before it could commit itself, Industry Minister Welshman Ncube said.
The judgement by the Supreme Court this week dismissing a Danish land suit against the government has shown that any foreign investment in land will not be protected by the law, defence lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri has said.
Zimbabwe has postponed a summit of Africa's largest trading block COMESA, which had been scheduled to launch a regional customs union in December, the trade minister said Thursday.
African governments came under fire for ‘‘blindly'' negotiating the controversial economic partnership agreements (EPAs) and not making an effort to educate ‘‘ordinary people'' on what they were negotiating.
South African taxpayers may have to pay millions of rands in compensation for the government's failure to act in Zimbabwe when hundreds of white-owned farms belonging to South Africans were confiscated in 2000.
The Zimbabwe government has admitted that it wronged white commercial farmers when it violently evicted them from their farms at the height of Zanu PF-instigated land invasions in 2000.
A group of Dutch farmers is one step closer to gaining compensation for land and farms lost to the government of Zimbabwe, after a recent hearing in Paris.
The last remaining white commercial farmers have appealed to the regional Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal in an effort to stop government from expropriating their properties.
"When we try to negotiate as individual countries, we give the Europeans the ammunition to divide and discriminate against us", said Zimbabwe's Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity Bright Matonga.
