Moffat Mungazi
Weekender Reporter
A MUTARE private school — Sunny Day Group of Schools — is facing eviction from their rented premises after failing to pay US$7 000 it owes its landlord, Friendly Environment Services (Private Limited).
In a letter dated March 19, 2025, and in possession of The Weekender, the school represented by its director, Paul Samupindi, was asked to vacate from the Alexander Court premises they were renting.
Alexander Court, situated at Number 2, Umsasa Street in Mutare, has 15 units which the Sunny Day Group of Schools has been occupying since January 2025.
The letter which is a cancellation of the lease agreement by Friendly Environment Services (Private Limited) represented by Largenote Chitenderu, reads: “We refer to the above matter, and to the letter of demand served on you on the 6th of March 2025, and to the lease agreement signed between ourselves and you in respect of 15 units at Alexander Court.
“We have noted that despite demand to remedy your breach of the lease agreement as demanded, a period in excess of seven days has lapsed, and you have remained in breach of the lease agreement.
“In the continued breach and guided by Clause 15.1 of the signed lease agreement, we view of accordingly terminate your lease agreement for breach.
“By copy of this letter, we demand that you vacate the premises within 48 hours of receipt of this letter.
“Further, we demand that you pay the total amount of US$7 000 (Seven Thousand United States dollars) being the outstanding rentals for the months of February and March 2025, less the initially claimed security deposit.
“In the event that you do not vacate the property within the 48 hours referred to herein, we shall have no option, save to seek your eviction through the courts, and claim holdover damages and legal costs to be incurred in the process. We trust and hope that this shall not be necessary.”
The letter further reads: “Should the Lessees default in any payment due under this lease or be in breach of its terms in any other way, and fail to remedy such default or breach within seven days after receiving a demand that it be remedied, the Lessor shall be entitled, without prejudice to any alternative or additional right of action or remedy available to the Lessor under the circumstances, to cancel this lease with immediate effect, repossess the premises and recover from the Lessee damages for the default or breach and the cancellation of this lease.”
Repeated efforts to get a comment from Samupindi were fruitless at the time of going to print as his number was not reachable.
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