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Tanyaradzwa Mujati
Weekender Reporter
A MUTARE woman is up in arms with her mother-in-law after selling part of her land.
Sabina Musere dragged her mother-in-law’s brother, Alex Mtisi to Mutare Civil Court, accusing him of trying to evict her from the disputed land.
She admitted being allocated the disputed land by her mother-in-law whose name was not mentioned in court.
Musere said when her husband died in 2009, he left her on the property where she is staying although she knows that it belonged to her mother-in-law.
“I was married into this family in 2002 and I only had one child with my late husband. We built our house on my mother-in-law’s land after we had negotiated with her,” said Musere.Musere said she resorted to sell a portion of the land due to the prevailing economic hardships so that she could get money for her child’s upkeep.
“The land was too big for us to utilise every piece of it. I decided to sell part of it so that I could get money for my child’s upkeep. My mother-in-law and her brother teamed up to harass me, saying I was wrong to sell the land as I have no title over it,” said Musere.
She said Mtisi was also accusing her of killing her husband to benefit from his estate.
“He labels me a witch and had a hand in my husband’s death. They claimed that my husband was a ritualist, a reason why he died young,” she said.
Musere pleaded with the court to be granted the protection order that would bar Mtisi from visiting her house, saying she is afraid of being beaten up.
“I do not want him at my house. I have no problem with my mother-in-law as we co-exist. Mtisi is trying to throw his weight around and interfere in a matter that does not involve him,” said Musere.
In response, Mtisi denied harassing Musere.
He said he visited her house in the company of the village head to understand why she had sold his sister’s land.
“The land in question belongs to my sister and she knows that. I went to her house in the company of my sister and the village head so that we could understand what motivated her to sell someone else’s land. We had an altercation over the issue, but resolved that she should stop parcelling out the land.
“However, we were surprised to see her continuing parcelling out the land. I confronted her again and we quarrelled. She should know that she is occupying that piece of land because of the child she had with my sister’s son,” said Mtisi.
Mtisi added that Musere had remarried, but later returned to stay at her old house with another man’s child.
“We accepted her back, but she is now overstepping her boundary. She can remarry and leave our children with nothing as inheritance after selling all the land.
“I do not regularly visits her as we do not see eye-to-eye. She should stop selling my sister’s land,” said Mtisi.
Mr Chipato granted the protection order that is valid for five years, but warned Musere that the protection order does not protect her from the pending case before the community court.
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