Former President Robert Mugabe’s family business, Gushungo
Holdings has been ordered to pay $174 183 to Seed Potato Co-op for seed
supplied in 2015.
The default judgment was entered on July 2 by Justice
Joseph Musakwa after Gushungo Holdings failed to defend the litigation filed by
the seed company sometimes early this year.
“Whereupon after reading documents filed of record, it is
ordered that: default judgment be and is, hereby, entered in favour of the
plaintiff (Seed Potato Co-op (Pvt) against the defendant (Gushungo Holdings) be
and is hereby ordered to pay: (a) payment of $174 183, being the outstanding
balance for stock of potato seed delivered but not paid for; and (b) interest
on all amounts due at the prescribed rate reckoned from September 31, 2015, to
date of full and final payment and (c) cost of suit on the ordinary scale,”
Justice Musakwa ruled.
Seed Potato firm said Gushungo Holdings failed to abide by
the parties’ verbal agreement which was signed sometime in July 2015.
The seed company said sometime between July and September
2015, it supplied Gushungo Holdings a total of 12 761 pockets of potato seed
worth $382 830 and Mugabe’s firm made a part payment, leaving a balance of $174
193. In its declaration, the seed company said the seeds were supplied to
Mugabe’s six farms, namely Mwenewazvo, Gushungo Dairy, Highfield, Vusumuzi,
Kaseplan and Iron Mask. Newsday
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