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Two chiefs demand 2 000 white cattle from Econet
08 Nov 2012 at 03:29hrs | Views
TWO Masvingo chiefs are demanding 2 000 head of white cattle from Econet Wireless for desecrating their ancestral shrine while erecting a base station on Sviba Hills.
Chief Murinye and Chief Mugabe accused the mobile phone operator of defiling a traditional shrine by exhuming human remains and destroying relics from the shrine.
The two chiefs last month made an urgent chamber application seeking to stop the project.
In the chamber application before High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa, the chiefs said Sviba Hills was a burial site and place of worship for the Duma people.
They argued that the traditional customary rites preserved at Sviba Hills had been exposed to desecration by the construction of the base station.
Justice Musakwa then reserved judgment when the case was heard last month.
Sviba Hills are near the Great Zimbabwe monuments and house sacred caves where successive
Chief Murinye and Chief Mugabe accused the mobile phone operator of defiling a traditional shrine by exhuming human remains and destroying relics from the shrine.
The two chiefs last month made an urgent chamber application seeking to stop the project.
In the chamber application before High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa, the chiefs said Sviba Hills was a burial site and place of worship for the Duma people.
They argued that the traditional customary rites preserved at Sviba Hills had been exposed to desecration by the construction of the base station.
Justice Musakwa then reserved judgment when the case was heard last month.
Sviba Hills are near the Great Zimbabwe monuments and house sacred caves where successive
Source - TH
