Tanzania: The Story Behind ATCL Plane Seizure in South Africa

Dar es Salaam — Fresh details have emerged on a decades-long legal tussle between the Tanzanian government and a retired white farmer that led a South African court to order the seizure of an Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) jetliner in Johannesburg last weekend.

According to documents The Citizen has obtained, the investor at the centre of the 37-year-old saga is one Hermanus P. Steyn - formerly the owner of Arusha-based Rift Valley Seed Company Limited, which the government nationalised in 1982, sparking a protracted battle for compensation.

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