FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko’s wife Laurinda is
among bigwigs that include former ministers, business people and sport
personalities who stand to lose their properties if they do not pay Bulawayo
City Council’s (BCC) dues within 30 days.
BCC yesterday released a lengthy list of individuals and
companies that owe it substantial amounts in rates for their properties.
The defaulting bigwig list includes former Bulawayo Provincial
Affairs Minister Mrs Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo, former Minister of Water and
Water Resources Development and Management Mr Samuel Sipepa-Nkomo, former
Tsholotsho Senator Believe Gaule, former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)
Governor, Dr Gideon Gono and RBZ Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo.
Also on the list is former Warriors captain Benjani
Mwaruwari, soccer legend Agent Sawu and a Gift Banda, believed to be
Njube-Lobengula MP who is also former Njube Sundowns owner and former Bulawayo
deputy mayor.
In a third and final public notice yesterday, BCC advised
all those whose properties have been listed to make necessary payments within
30 days or risk losing them.
“Notice is hereby given to the owners of the above listed
properties to come forward and make necessary payments to council within the
next 30 days. Failure to do so will result in council disposing of the said
properties in terms of Section 5 of the Title Registration and Derelict Lands
Act, Chapter 20:20, which reads as follows; ‘whenever there remains due and
unpaid for the space of five years any rate or assessment payable to any
municipality or other public body upon any immovable property in Zimbabwe
and such property is abandoned, deserted
and left derelict and the owner thereof cannot be found, it shall be lawful for
the person or body claiming such rate or assessment to apply to the High Court,
stating the amount claimed to be due and the grounds for applying for relief
under this Act,” reads the notice from council.
Derelict land is land whose rates had not been paid for a
period of five years and above.
Most properties that the local authority has threatened to
repossess are in the affluent eastern suburbs.
Anzac Investments formerly owned by the late Vice President
Joshua Nkomo, the National Railways of Zimbabwe, Zimre Properties, White Pear
Farming Co, Bulawayo Glass and Allied Products, constitute some of the
companies set to lose their properties. Mrs Mphoko is set to lose property on
stand number 14440 Selbourne Park while Mr Sipepa-Nkomo will lose 347
Mahatshula stand. Mrs Moyo’s 43 Whitestone property, Dr Mlambo’s 259 Whitestone
stand in Hillside suburb and Cde Gaule’s 2349 stand in Mahatshula have been
listed for repossession. Banda is alleged to be in arrears over his 7 Chelsea
Court property situated at 38A Jason Moyo Street. Mwaruwari owes council
rentals on four properties, 64, 65 and 66 as well as 247 Mqabuko Heights in
Matsheumhlophe while Sawu, a former Zimbabwe Saints and Warriors striker who
also had playing stints in Switzerland, Cyprus and China owes council on his
Whitestone property in Hillside suburb. Chronicle
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