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Registrar issues writ of ejectment against Anglican Church and orphanage
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
September 08, 2011

The Deputy Sheriff has issued a 48 hour notice to occupants at a Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) Anglican Church and an orphanage in Murerwa to vacate their premises and make way for sympathisers of ex-communicated Anglican Bishop, Nolbert Kunonga.

In a notice of ejectment dated 6 September 2011, the Deputy Sheriff for Murewa, only identified as Mzingwina, gave tenants at St Johns Anglican Church Mission in Chikwaka including administrators at Shearley Cripps Home, an orphanage housing more than 100 orphans and located about 100 kilometers outside Harare, 48 hours to vacate the premises.

The notice of ejectment came after Kunonga caused the Registrar of the High Court to issue a writ of ejectment against the CPCA from their properties in a fresh assault on the Bishop Chad Gandiya-led church.

Through the writ of ejectment dated 2 September 2011, Kunonga through his Diocesan Trustees for the Diocese of Harare wants the CPCA and occupants at all CPCA Anglican Diocese of Harare properties to vacate the premises and make way for his Diocesan Trustees for the Diocese of Harare.

Pursuant to the writ of ejectment, Kunonga's followers have already ordered Priests at some rectories to vacate the various church properties and to surrender the properties.

In seizing the CPCA properties, Kunonga and his followers are reportedly relying upon the impugned part of the judgment issued last month by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku to claim that the dispute has now been determined finally by the Supreme Court.

The CPCA has appealed against the recent Supreme Court decision that gave custody of some Anglican properties to Kunonga.

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