THERE are
more chances of State House being sold than Phillip Chiyangwa's sprawling
25-bedroom mansion in the leafy Borrowdale suburb, he told New Zimbabwe.com.

Chiyangwa was denying
media reports that appeared while he was in jail claiming he had sold
the property for Zim$6,8 billion..

Said Chiyangwa:
"That house is a museum that will stay there forever."

The Financial Gazette,
a business weekly published every Thursday, first made the claims in
a front page splash and has refused to retract the story even after
being told it was a lie, said Chiyangwa.

"In fact that
house has never been registered in my name. I built it for my children.
For argument's sake, it cannot be sold until they all reach the age
of 26. But of course there is no chance of it being sold," said
Chiyangwa who was sensationally discharged by a High Court judge over
claims he spied for foreign governments.

In any case, said
Chiyangwa, the Financial Gazette's evaluation of the property at $6,8
billion was far too low.

"The impression
it gives is that 'Chiyangwa is broke'," he told our correspondent.
"If it's about Zimbabwe dollars, I am not short of them. That house
is currently worth Zim$100 billion, and a similar house in Britain could
fetch up of £15 million."

Chiyangwa said a
'SOLD' sign, which formed the basis of the Financial Gazette story was
in fact for a neighbour's property. The agents who placed the placard
had written his lawyers to apologise for placing the 'SOLD' banner too
close to his mansion.

The white two-storey property was built between 1995 and 2000, using
a loan from CABS Bank, Chiyangwa revealed.

Chiangwa was arrested
in December last year alongside Zimbabwe’s ambassador-designate
to Mozambique, Godfrey Dzvairo, banker Tendai Matambanadzo and Zanu
PF external affairs director Itai Marchi on allegations of spying for
foreign governments.

Said Chiyangwa:
"Since my arrest on December 15, all sorts of lies have been told
about me in the local media. Some journalists have declared open season
on me.