Supreme Court recognises late mayor’s 10 out-of-wedlock children

THE Supreme Court has recognised and ruled in favour of the late Masvingo mayor Thomas Zawaira’s 10 children born out of wedlock, who had been left out in the distribution of their father’s estate.

Zawaira, who served as Masvingo’s first black mayor, died in 2003 leaving behind a spouse Felistas Zawaira and 16 children, 10 of them born out of wedlock with different women.
His estate, on the instructions of the Master of the High Court, was distributed equally among Felistas and her six children.

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