A woman from Victoria Falls has been brought before the Civil Court for allegedly swindling members of the Twelve Apostolic Church’s Silethemba Burial Society of $7 000.
NOKUTHABA DLAMINI OWN CORRESPONDENT
Kurai Saiveni, the burial society treasurer and a church elder, allegedly converted contributions by other church members to her own use and failed to reimburse the burial society resulting in her colleagues going to court in a bid to recover their savings.
Victoria Falls resident magistrate Sharon Rosemani yesterday indefinitely postponed the case to allow the two parties to iron out the matter privately after a church leader Philip Mhlanga requested that the court give them a chance to solve the issue amicably.
Particulars of the claim before Rosemani indicated that church members formed a burial society in October 2005 and elected Saiveni as a treasurer in 2008.
In December 2013, the burial society members decided to use their savings to buy a mini-bus for the church and share 20 cases of 2kg sugar, 11×24 boxes of bar soap and 7×6 boxes of 5l cooking oil they had amassed since there had been no death of a member since the formation of the burial society.
They approached Saiveni asking for the money, but she informed them that she had used the money and promised to pay it back and they accepted her explanation.
On May 10, she paid $200 out of the $5 610 that she owed, but the groceries were not recovered.
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The overall prejudice was $7 110.
Rosemani urged them to settle the matter at church level but return to court if they fail to reach an acceptable solution.
