Chihowa v. Mangwende, 1987
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 174
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289316 Document Number: 383735
The Court held that a woman who has reached the age of majority can succeed her father who has died intestate. It based its decision on the Zimbabwe Legal Age of Majority Act, No. 15 of 1982, which it concluded supersedes customary law prescribing that intestate inheritance is through the male line only.