Mashonaland East Provincial Governor and Resident Minister Aeneas Chigwedere has been confirmed headman for the Mubaiwa clan following a High Court ruling yesterday.
Chigwedere had been embroiled in a wrangle over the headmanship with fellow Hwedza villager and relative Raines Chadoka.
Sitting at the High Court in Harare, Justice Andrew Mutema dismissed Chadoka’s application and ordered him to pay costs at a higher scale.
The judgment effectively put to rest the Mubaiwa headmanship wrangle which had dragged in the courts for several years.
To prove that he was the bona fide headman, Chigwedere produced documentary evidence obtained from the National Archives of Zimbabwe which showed that the headmanship alternated between the Chipango and Munzverengi families.
Chigwedere hails from Chipango family.
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The former Education minister was represented by Harare lawyer Tendai Masawi.
During the hearing three months ago, Chigwedere spent the whole day giving evidence in court outlining the chronological order of events prior to him taking over as headman of the Mubaiwa dynasty.
According to the family tree records compiled on October 15, 1972, which were produced in court as exhibits, the headmanship falls within the Chigwedere family.
Justice Mutema dismissed evidence which was led in court to the effect that one of Chigwedere’s descendants, Hwenyika, seized the headmanship from Chadoka’s descendants, Musekiwa.