Daughter tricks elderly mother into signing her house away and then evicts her

An elderly woman in Entumbane, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has regained ownership of her home after the courts ruled that her daughter fraudulently tricked her into signing it away. According to court records, Ms. Siphiwe Moyo purchased the property in 1998 from the Bulawayo City Council. For years, the house represented her security, but in 2015 her daughter, identified as Floid Ngwenya, allegedly misled her into signing documents that transferred ownership. The court heard that Ngwenya convinced her mother the paperwork was meant to protect the property. Instead, the documents cancelled the original memorandum of sale and ceded ownership to Ngwenya. The court also noted irregularities in the documents, including mismatched signing dates and a handwritten letter purportedly from Moyo, which she denied authoring. Ms. Moyo told the court she was not properly informed of what she was signing and was only asked to provide her thumbprint. The court found that she had been coerced and ruled in her favour, granting a legal order of rei vindicatio, which allows her to reclaim her house from anyone occupying it without her consent. Ngwenya has been ordered to return ownership of the property within seven days of the judgment, issued on Friday, 5 September 2025. The case has highlighted the devastating toll of family disputes over property, with Moyo left heartbroken after nearly losing the home she had secured nearly three decades ago.The post Daughter tricks elderly mother into signing her house away and then evicts her appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.