In a twist fit for a Zimbabwean soap opera, Harare businesswoman Abigail Makono has been slapped with a High Court ruling to cough up $600,000 to her ex-husband, Charles Makono, a former cop turned entrepreneur. The drama? Abigail tried to dodge the payment by blocking the sale of their Kaguvi Street commercial property, but Justice Regis Dembure wasn’t having it. “Frivolous and vexatious,” the judge called her arguments, dismissing her bid with punitive costs.
The backstory: the couple’s January 2025 consent order mandated Abigail to pay Charles within four months. She didn’t. Charles, armed with a writ of execution, moved to attach the property , awarded to Abigail months prior. Her defense? Charles hadn’t signed transfer docs. Plot twist: evidence showed he’d complied in June. “Silence can be deafening,” the court noted .
The verdict? The property will be auctioned. “Court orders are sacred, not suggestions,” Dembure declared. Abigail’s lawyer, Panashe Chivhenge, argued the writ was “flawed,” but the judge saw abuse of process. Divorce settlements aren’t a game of hide-and-seek .
Now, the Kaguvi Street building , a symbol of their “successful” marriage ,faces the chopping block.
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