Court Reporter
MATABELELAND South War Veterans official Alfred Moyo who defied the High Court and called it a Kangaroo Court decision has been given three days to vacate a plot he invaded in Mazunga.
Beitbridge Provincial magistrate Mbonisi Kaweni initially granted a Protection Order to Nothando Mbedzi Ndlovu at whose Plot 7 A near Mazunga Moyo invaded after the death of the applicant’s husband.
Moyonwas after 21 years evicted by the High Court thus last September.
But he stayed put prompting Mbedzi-Ndou to seek a Protection Order this week.
Kaweni ordered Moyo not to disturb the peace of Mbedzi-Ndlovu and let her enjoy her property inherited from her late war veteran husband.
“You are in breach of the High Court already but this court will not seek to go into the affairs of a superior court. We will confine ourselves to the application here for a Protection Order which is granted,” said Kaweni.
Moyo said he did not contest the order and said he had not set foot on the plot although he tried calling it Plot 9 which Kaweni did not entertain.
Just after the Civil matter was completed, Moyo appeared again before Kaweni to answer a criminal charge of Contempt of Court.
In that case Tawanda Chigavazira, for the State, sought to revoke bail conditions and have Moyo remanded in custody for breaching his bail conditions.
Moyo who is out on bail for Contempt of Court for going back to the farm where he was evicted denied the charge.
Kaweni dismissed the state application to revoke bail saying Mbedzi Ndlovu and her witness Ndivhuwo Ndlovu did not corroborate.
That done, the court was left with a glaring contempt of a High Court Order by Moyo which Kaweni said could simply not ignore.
“He is ignoring the High court Order hiding from the fact that a Protection Order barring him to visit Plot 7 A is in place but he is clearly in breach. He must vacate the place from where he was removed,” said Kaweni during the marathon sitting that spilt into lunch.
After the lunch resumption, Chigavazira made a successful application to alter Moyo’s bail conditions to include him a three day period to remove his property and everyone claiming occupation through him.
Moyo, who made several attempts to stop proceedings saying he did not have his legal representative, was told that in terms of the breach of a High Court Order, the other option was for him to be locked up.
For the last 21 years Moyo has been trying to wrestle the farm from a fellow war veteran’s widow claiming the farm has been reallocated, a narration dismissed by the High Court.
In one of its reports in another case involving the same area, the High Court bland Lands Officer Mthulisi Moyo for disputes on most farms in Beitbridge.
From Thursday conclusions, Moyo will by Sunday be expected to have completely vacated Mbedzi- Ndlovu property.