Vice President Mohadi and ex-wife continues court fights
HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi and his former wife Senator Tambudzani Bhudagi Muleya, whose marriage was dissolved in March this year, are continuing their messy court battle over issues that had not been resolved prior to the dissolution of the couple’s union.
On Friday last week, Mohadi filed a High Court application seeking leave to be condoned for having filed his heads of argument out of time in a matter in which his former wife is challenging the court procedure that was adopted by a Harare magistrate when he granted a contempt of court order against her last year.
Muleya argued that a Harare magistrate only identified Gwatidzo “had adopted an irregular procedure” when he allowed Mohadi to file a fresh contempt of court application without initially seeking rescission of a default judgement of the same matter.
“…When the second respondent (Muleya) filed her heads in HC9929/18 they were mistakenly placed in the file for HC8991/18.
“I only realised this mistake when the prescribed time period within which the applicant’s heads of argument, that is on June 6, 2019, had lapsed and I then filed the applicant’s heads of argument on June 10, 2019 out of time.
“I humbly implore this honourable court not to visit my mistake on to the applicant as it was not of his own making,” Mohadi lawyer Reliance Ndou said in the papers.
On Friday last week, Mohadi filed a High Court application seeking leave to be condoned for having filed his heads of argument out of time in a matter in which his former wife is challenging the court procedure that was adopted by a Harare magistrate when he granted a contempt of court order against her last year.
Muleya argued that a Harare magistrate only identified Gwatidzo “had adopted an irregular procedure” when he allowed Mohadi to file a fresh contempt of court application without initially seeking rescission of a default judgement of the same matter.
“…When the second respondent (Muleya) filed her heads in HC9929/18 they were mistakenly placed in the file for HC8991/18.
“I only realised this mistake when the prescribed time period within which the applicant’s heads of argument, that is on June 6, 2019, had lapsed and I then filed the applicant’s heads of argument on June 10, 2019 out of time.
“I humbly implore this honourable court not to visit my mistake on to the applicant as it was not of his own making,” Mohadi lawyer Reliance Ndou said in the papers.
