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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Staff Reporter<\/b> – THE case in which Doves Life Assurance Company (Doves) shareholders are embroiled in a nasty ownership wrangle after Farai Matsika allegedly tried to elbow out his partner Phibeon Busangabanye has been struck off the roll by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Matsika and Busangabaye bought Doves from incarcerated businessman Munyaradzi Kereke in 2012 through their jointly owned investment vehicle, Transfrontier Investments (Transfrontier), which they formed in 2008.<\/p>\n

The matter spilled to the Supreme Court after the High Court ruled that Matsika and Busangabaye have a 50- 50 shareholding in Transfrontier, which acquired 100% shareholding in Doves.<\/p>\n

The judgement was handed down by Justice Zhou at the High court on July 30 2020 prompting the aggrieved part, Matsika to approach the supreme court.<\/p>\n

In the Supreme court, judges of appeal, Justices Tendai Uchena, Samuel Kudya and Felistus Chatukuta struck the matter off the roll.<\/p>\n

A full judgement is yet be released.<\/p>\n

Reads the judgement, \u201cWhereupon after reading records filed of record and hearing counsel it is ordered that the matter be struck off the roll with costs on the higher scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Busangabanye had claimed his High Court challenge that he and Matsika have a 50- 50 shareholding in Transfrontier, which acquired 100% shareholding in Doves.<\/p>\n

He argued that Matsika refused, neglected or failed to implement an oral shareholders agreement despite the presence of a memorandum of understanding indicating they held equal shareholding in the company.<\/p>\n

He successfully sought a High Court order declaring that Transfrontier is the sole beneficiary holder of 100% of the shares in Doves.<\/p>\n

Busangabanye also wants the court to direct the two to conclude the shareholders agreement \u201cto apportion shares to their chosen entities and to comply with the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) regulations\u201d and to restrain other entities from muscling themselves into Doves.<\/p>\n

In his high court application, Busangabanye said that they acquired Doves as a going concern and amended Transfrontier\u2019s paperwork to reflect their equal shareholdings.<\/p>\n

It was agreed that they would pay a purchase consideration of US$2,8 million for the 100% equity held by Kereke\u2019s Rockford Foundation Trust (RFT) and another US$2,2 million (net of taxes) in deferred dividends due to the Trust.<\/p>\n

The deferred dividends were to be paid after five years from the date of the transaction, while the purchase price was to be paid in payments of US$500 000, as deposit and monthly instalments.<\/p>\n

The legal counsels, who chaperoned the transaction, advised that Transfrontier could not hold the entire stake alone as that would breach industry requirements, and the group made a decision to introduce two other vehicles to warehouse the shares, Faramatsi and Besilicata.<\/p>\n

Upon the parties signing off the agreement on October 12, 2012, Matsika, court documents show, arranged for payment of US$225 000 from Nedbank of South Africa as advance payment for legal fees due to Honey & Blackenberg which, according to Busangabanye\u2019s application, was sourced from Northpark.<\/p>\n

His understanding was that the money was meant to be a loan to Transfrontier and that some of it was going towards payment of the deposit since the legal fees were only US$32 000.<\/p>\n

He also sought an order directing Matsika to \u201cattend all procedures obligated and necessary in terms of the Companies Act to effectuate the registration and lodgement of requisite documents recording the respective issued shareholding, directors and secretaries with the registrar of companies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Busangabanye further argues that as the chief executive of Doves from 2012 to 2016, he raised US$2,8 million to complete the transaction and a receipt dated July 23, 2014 was issued by Kereke\u2019s RFT.<\/p>\n

However, when Matsika assumed leadership of the company subsequently, Busangabanye contends he started reneging on making outstanding payments, resulting in disagreements.<\/p>\n

Transfrontier would later pay US$1 556 000 to RTF, leaving a balance of US$644 000, after which Matsika allegedly reneged on their understanding, including completing the shareholder agreement, resulting in Busangabaye approaching the courts for recourse.<\/p>\n

High Court judge Justice Happias Zhou once blocked Doves from convening an extraordinary general meeting to elect a new board pending the finalisation of the wrangle following a challenge by Busangabaye.<\/p>\n

Busangabanye had argued that the EGM and the process to appoint the new directors were in violation of Ipec regulations.<\/p>\n

Matsika had claimed that Busangabanye had no locus standi to institute the application because he was not a shareholder in the assurance firm, but Justice Zhou upheld Busangabanye\u2019s arguments and granted him the interim relief barring the holding of the EGM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Staff Reporter – THE case in which Doves Life Assurance Company (Doves) shareholders are embroiled in a nasty ownership wrangle after Farai Matsika allegedly tried to elbow out his partner Phibeon Busangabanye has been struck off the roll by the Supreme Court. 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