Noose tightens on Kasukuwere

PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has filed an interdict pendente lite (pending litigation) at the High Court seeking to bar former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere from dealing with or disposing of his Nyanga property pending a Supreme Court ruling.

In the application, the PG said the High Court’s decision to release the property was grossly irregular.

He added that Kasukuwere did not have locus standi in judicio (the right to bring an action, to be heard in court, or to address the court on a matter before it) until he had purged his contempt.

The magistrate who presided over the matter, Mr Hosea Mujaya, the clerk of Harare magistrates court and the Registrar of Deeds are cited as respondents.

On October 9, 2019, the High Court ordered the immediate release of Kasukuwere’s property, Lot 4 of Subdivision D Manchester in the District of Mutare, Zimbabwe, registered under title deed 8010/2003, to the State.

The High Court decision follows Kasukuwere’s High Court application for release of the property after it was forfeited to the State.

The property was forfeited to State because of his non-appearance for his criminal abuse of office case at the magistrates’ court on the grounds that he was receiving medical attention in South Africa.

“The applicant has applied for leave to appeal against the High Court’s decision in the Supreme Court under case number SC550/ 19 and the application is pending,” read the application.

The PG insisted that Kasukuwere was likely to dispose of the property now that the title deeds have been returned to him.

“Respondent has shown that he is ready to deal with the property and may possibly dispose of it.”

The application for review is already set down for hearing, he said.