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Latest: Mutumwa Mawere seeks to interdict Mnangagwa from contesting

By Staff Writer

SOUTH-Africa – Zimbabwe based businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed an application with the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe seeking to interdict President Emmerson Mnangagwa from contesting the 2023 elections until the air is cleared on the legalities of the Reconstruction Act.

Part of Mawere’s application reads, “The applicant prays that the respondent be interdicted and restrained from participating in the 2023 elections pending the resolution of Part B of the application.”

Part B

Court to declare that Mnangagwa’s conduct in relation to the affairs of Air Zimbabwe Private Limited and Hwange Colliery Company through his direct and personal actions including appointing Chinamasa as Chairman of Air Zimbabwe under reconstruction which conduct was ultra vires the Reconstruction of State Indebted Insolvent Companies Act (Recon Act) which Act precluded the concurrent application of the provisions of the Companies Act , a law of general application in relation to the affairs of a company whose control and management was divested and deprived pursuant to the Recon Act.

Determine as follows

  • The Reconstruction Act offended Zimbabwean public policy and international law
  • That the Constitutional Court lacked title to hear and assert any rights acquired pursuant to the Reconstruction Act
  • Any law , practice , custom and conduct that offends s.2(1) of the Constitution is null and void.

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