US$145m in properties, 23 000 ha of farmland and U...

US$145m in properties, 23 000 ha of farmland and US330 000 worth of vehicles is just a fraction of Bona worth: Simba Chikore

Declared assets at a glance

Harare properties adding to over 161 ha and worth US$ 64m
Farms rounding off to 22923 ha excluding Mwenewazvo Farm
16 vehicles worth US$ 337 500
US$80m Dubai Mansion plus US$800 000 Rolls Royce
Sundry other land assets worth US$14m
US$889 000 cash
Farm equipment and other

Simba Chikore stakes his claim on an empire worth

Simba Chikore says 21 Farms and 25 high value urban properties just a drop in the ocean for Bona Mugabe.

In his response to his wife’s application for divorce, Simba Chikore has listed a huge number of high value assets while suggesting that this is just a small fraction of what Bona Mugabe owns.

According to The Herald, Chikore, through his lawyer Mr Rogers Matsikidze has listed 21 farms and more than 25 upmarket residential properties, almost US$1m cash, plus companies and movable properties as the assets that he wants a fair share of.

Bona Mugabe applied to have a divorce decree granted as well as child support and custody issues sorted with property sharing coming separately.

She said the couple jointly and individually acquired movable and immovable property but dealing with the property issues in the divorce suit would delay the grant of the divorce decree.

But Chikore wants the asset sharing concluded so the two parties can be untangled.

Chikore is also reportedly accusing Bona of “unreasonably” refusing to settle as he says Bona Mugabe owns far much more than the assets in question.

Chikore is staking his claim on his contributions through his savings from his former jobs as a pilot and the farming venture.

Chikore also says he earned from the late Robert Mugabe through and donations and payment for work, jobs and special assignments.

“There is much input through direct and indirect contribution wherein the defendant contributed to the assets, both movable and immovable, acquired during the subsistence of his marriage,” his response reads.

Along with over 21 Harare properties and over 21 farms, Chikore is also laying claim on a mansion in Dubai and other assets including farming equipment and machinery.

In her application Bona cited Chikore’s extra-marital activities as one of the reasons for the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage and asked forUS$2 700 monthly maintenance for each of the three children per child until they attain their majority or become self-sustaining.

In his response Chikore says the couple can work through their problems if they get genuine counselling and family support while claiming that there has been interference from third parties and personal agendas.