Mawere approaches the British government for help to reclaim SMMH

Mutumwa Mawere this week approached the British and South African governments to help him reclaim his SMMH company which was put under state administrator Afaras Gwaradzimba under the State Indebted and Reconstruction Act in 2004.

Mawere's diplomatic manoeuvre is contained in a letter dated December 7 by his lawyers Kyle Attorneys to British ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert which was also copied to the South African embassy.

Mawere said the Zimbabwean government acted illegally by granting its laws extra-territorial powers since SMMH was a British registered company and could not be arbitrarily taken over without involving British courts.

SMMH owns the now defunct Shabanie and Mashaba mines and their associate companies in Zimbabwe and Zambia.