Former minister loses land dispute

FORMER Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister Nyasha Chikwinya has lost a legal battle against a housing co-operative over a prime piece of land in Goromonzi district, with the High Court ordering her eviction and declaring her offer letter invalid. 

The dispute was centred on a 150,27-hectare property, known as the remainder of Glen Forest of Borrowdale Estate. 

The land was gazetted for urban development in 2003 and officially allocated to the Mama Mafuyana Housing Co-operative by the Local Government ministry for that purpose. 

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