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Leonard Ncube Court Reporter
TelOne is going after defaulting clients with 35 subscribers being dragged to court for non-payment of telephone bills. The 35 include individuals, some of them prominent businesspeople, schools and companies.According to documents at the High Court in Bulawayo, TelOne, through its legal representatives Cheda and Partners, filed court applications and summons in a bid to recover thousands of dollars owed to it by the defaulting clients.
The landline provider wants to recover money for telephone services which accumulated when clients neglected paying, some since dollarisation of the economy in 2009.
None of the cases have been set down for hearing with some clients having filed notices of application to defend while others have not responded.
Prominent Bulawayo businesspersons that have the TelOne axe hovering over their heads are former Zifa boss Vincent Pamire who has allegedly failed to service a $11,347.94 telephone bill.
The arrears are in respect of his Lochview House along Kopje Road. Pamire has, however, since filed an application to defend through his lawyers Marondedze, Mukuku, Ndove and Partners.
Businesswoman Anele Mnyandu, who at some point used to sponsor sport in schools, has also been summoned to appear in court after failing to pay $16,875 for her Matsheumhlophe house in Bulawayo.
Bulawayo’s cultural centre, Amakhosi Cultural Village allegedly failed to pay a $10,200 telephone bill. The cultural centre, which put Bulawayo on the world map in terms of arts, was summoned alongside three other defendants Nicholas Madlala Mhlanga, Sibusisiwe Ncube of Makokoba and Andrew Moyo from the same suburb.
Ncube and Moyo were made liable following their declaration as guarantors that they would pay the bills in the event that Amakhosi Cultural Village defaulted.
The cultural centre is also arguing against the summons, and has applied for further particulars of claim. The directors at Amakhosi want proof of how the figure got to $10,000 and if there is any statement. One of the schools that have been found wanting is the now defunct Elite High School, whose offices at Astra Complex along Herbert Chitepo Street ran a $11,439.76 bill but authorities failed to pay.
A couple Gift and Jesca Matingo from Buena Vista that runs Knosis Enterprises, was also summoned over arrears amounting to $14,000 for its Knosis Enterprises shop in Windsor Park.
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