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Setback over dead Zimbabwe minister nearly derails $200m von Pezold lawsuit

The aristocratic von Pezold family nearly saw its $200 million land-seizure compensation suit collapse after they addressed court documents to a Zimbabwean minister who had died months earlier. [...]

Published on 28/09/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Time is nigh to settle accounts between von Pezolds and Zimbabwean regime

The European aristocratic von Pezold family seem to be on the cusp of success in their efforts to reclaim more than $200m of state compensation for agricultural land expropriated during the Mugabe era. Their success in this mission would consolidate their dominant position in Zimbabwean agriculture but also, more widely, in southern Africa.

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The von Pezolds chase Harare for dispossession compensation

On 23 July, German and Swiss national Elisabeth von Pezold and her seven children filed a case with the US Court of the District of Columbia to enforce the 2015 ICSID ruling, which sentenced Harare to pay the family over $200m.

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Time is nigh to settle accounts between von Pezolds and Zimbabwean regime

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