{"id":225894,"date":"2026-03-03T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-orders-immediate-return-of-botha-gold-mine-in-dispute-with-freda-rebecca\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:13:20","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-orders-immediate-return-of-botha-gold-mine-in-dispute-with-freda-rebecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-orders-immediate-return-of-botha-gold-mine-in-dispute-with-freda-rebecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Orders Immediate Return of Botha Gold Mine in Dispute With Freda Rebecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The High Court has ordered the immediate restoration of Botha Gold Mine to its operators, warning that disputes in the mining sector must be resolved through the courts rather than through what it described as unlawful interference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a ruling delivered in Harare, Justice Mandaza granted an urgent spoliation order in favour of Side Electrical (Private) Limited, trading as Botha Gold Mine, under Case No. HCH653\/26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The order compels Freda Rebecca Gold Mine and associated parties to restore full&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603030359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has ordered the immediate restoration of Botha Gold Mine to its operators, warning that disputes in the mining sector must be resolved through the courts rather than through what it described as unlawful interference. In a ruling delivered in Harare, Justice Mandaza granted an urgent spoliation order in favour of Side Electrical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,24541,6185,9424,53587,4644,6184,257,6186,33216,6656,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botha","tag-court","tag-dispute","tag-freda","tag-gold","tag-high","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-rebecca","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}