Mon 26 August 2019:
South Africa has impounded a plane belonging to Tanzania’s national carrier over a farmer’s $33-million compensation claim for his land which the Tanzanian government nationalised decades ago, a lawyer said Sunday.
The Air Tanzania aircraft was seized on Friday at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport after it landed during a scheduled flight from Tanzanian economic capital Dar-es Salaam.
Lawyer Roger Wakefield of Werksmans Attorneys said the seizure followed an order granted by the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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In the 1980s, Tanzania’s government nationalised a massive, privately-owned bean and seed farm, seizing everything including equipment, 250 cars and 12 small planes.
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