Zimbabwe: Anglican Row: Kunonga Loses Five Appeals

23 October 2012

THE Supreme Court yesterday threw out five different appeals by Bishop Nolbert Kunonga's Church of the Province of Zimbabwe leaving the court to determine the outstanding two decisive matters in his long drawn battle for control of church property with the Anglican Province of Central Africa. Deputy Chief Justice Luke Malaba sitting with Justices Vernanda Ziyambi and Yunus Omerjee struck the cases for the Province of Zimbabwe's failure to comply with the rules of the Supreme Court.

The cases that were thrown out include the one in which Bishop Kunonga was contesting an earlier decision by the then Judge President Rita Makarau compelling the two groups to take turns to worship in the church premises.

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