Zim’s evicted farmers won a symbolic victory when a house owned by the Mugabe regime was auctioned off to compensate them for their land being seized.

Robert Mugabe’s top aide has flouted a high court ruling, leaving 75 people in tears – homeless and jobless.

Villagers who were resettled in Mabula in 1983 have been battling their eviction in court, and have now appealed to President Mugabe for assistance.

Zimbabwe’s government is unlikely to entertain a proposal by a farmers’ union, with Finance Minister Tendai Biti calling it an "elitist solution".

Mugabe and his allies have seized nearly half Zimbabwe’s commercial farms in a land grab widely blamed for the economic collapse.

The SADC tribunal will report to the next summit of SADC heads of state Zimbabwe’s non-compliance with a ruling on its land reform policies.