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Zvikomborero Parafini
The Mugure Estate wrangle has spilled into the courts.
The late businessman Daniel Chapinga’s second wife spent the weekend in remand prison charged with fraud.
Chipo Mutandwa initially appeared in court over the weekend and was released on Us$100 bail by Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi.
Chapinga was the owner of Mugure House Institute.
The complainant in the matter is Tatenda Yolanda Zvakanaka 23, and is one of the late Chaoinga’s seven children.
Mutandwa was married to Chapinga as his second wife until his death in July 2021.
He was also married to Forcena Marongwe who passed on in April this year.
Zvakanaka was the second born and her sister Tafadzwa Belinda Zvakanaka was the first born.
It is the State’s case that on August 12 2021, after Chapinga’s death, Mutandwa hatched a plan to defraud the two sis-ters of their father’s estate.
She allegedly proceeded to the Registrar General’s Office to procure Deceased’s Death Certificate without the knowledge of his children and relatives, in a bid to disinherit them.
She allegedly hired Winnai Mutandwa – her mother and a disabled young brother of Chapinga, one Osward Chapinga to assist her in her fraudulent activities.
They failed to secure the death certificate.
Thereafter, Mutandwa allegedly chased away the two sisters from their home and denied them access to their father’s estate.
Mutandwa allegedly then procured a fake valuation report even though she wasn’t the appointed executor of the es-tate.
When the Chapinga passed on, he left behind a thrivinh and functioning school Mugure House Institute which his chil-dren have been denied access to.
Mutandwa allegedly removed her late husband’s children from from University of Johannesburg in South Africa where they had been enrolled by their late father, who had deposed to an Affidavit for Commitment to pay.
The daughters are owing ZAR26 448 and ZAR 44 134 respectively and are being pursued by debt collectors.
The State further claimed that Mutandwa also went on further to fraudulently and unlawfully create a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which she then also tempered with claiming 50% share of the school which was left by Chapinga.
The Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement has since established and confirmed that the said MOU purportedly made by and between Mutandwa and her late husband is null and void.
The state claims Mutandwa intended to disinherit her late husband’s children.
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