The wife of Former President Robert Mugabe, Grace Mugabe and her son from a previous marriage, Russell Gorezaza were ordered to pay $278 304 to a local law firm which represented her in several court cases involving a failed $1,4 million diamond ring deal with a Lebanese businessman.
Grace Mugabe was represented by Manase and Manase Legal Practitioners in a lawsuit against the Lebanese businessman Jamal Ahmed.
High Court judge Justice Felistus Chatukuta ruled on January 15, 2019, in favour of the law firm and ordered Grace and her son, Russell Goreraza, to pay the legal fees. Justice Chatukuta ruled:
Whereupon, after reading documents filed of record and hearing counsel, it is ordered that (a) the defendant (Grace and her son) be and is hereby ordered to pay the plaintiff $278 304,05 jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved, (b) Interest on the capital sum of 5% per annum calculated from the date of demand to date of full and final payment and cost of suit on an ordinary scale.