Lawyer dragged into land sale scandal
A LEGAL practitioner, Chipo Maposa Mahlangu, has been cited as the 2nd respondent in a High Court urgent application seeking to stop an alleged illegal housing cooperative from selling State land in Kadoma, Mashonaland West Province. The matter came before Justice Nyaradzo Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa in the Harare High Court this Friday, where the court issued consent directions for the filing of papers. The applicant, Citizens for Land Justice Zimbabwe, represented by Munyaradzi Msamba, is seeking an interdict to halt what it calls the unlawful administration, allocation and sale of stands at Mupamombe, Ingezi, Kadoma by Mupamombe Housing Cooperative Society Limited and its office bearers. According to the founding affidavit, Mahlangu is named alongside the cooperative and 9 other indiv…