The appellant and the first respondent are former husband and wife, their marriage having been dissolved by a decree of divorce issued on 26 November 2019. Their proprietary rights were determined subsequently by judgment of the High Court (“the court a quo”) delivered on 24 July 2023. In that judgment, the court a quo distributed their property, including a farm known as Randhurst Grange Estate situate in the district of Goromonzi measuring 926.5930 hectares (“Machipisa farm”) and a business known as Zororo Energy Private Limited (“Zororo Energy”), which properties form the basis of this appeal, the appellant having appealed against... More
This is an appeal against part of the judgment of the High Court sitting at Bulawayo handed down on 4 June 2020 as HB 87/20, under HC 1124/17. The part appealed againstis the order by the court a quo dismissing the application for amendment in respect of an alternative claim and prayer seeking to compel the respondents to transfer 8000 squaremetres of land to the appellant. More
MAVANGIRA JA:
1. This is an appeal against the entire judgment of the High Court sitting at Harare, in which the court granted a declaratur in favour ofthe first respondent asserting that hewas the lawful holder of rights and interests in the property known as stand 6401 Retreat Waterfalls. The court also ordered that the appellant and all those in occupation through her should vacate the property. More
A convicted killer, who, by all accounts, should have received a stiffer penalty if not the ultimate one, but for the generosity of the trial court which suddenly became unbelievably lenient despite the prosecution’s pleas for a sentence of life imprisonment, appealed against the sentence of seventeen years imprisonment. The sentence was imposed on 7 July 2017.
If ever there was a trifling with an appellate court by a recalcitrant, unrepentant and indeed ungrateful litigant, this appeal deserves a special prize for it. After hearing arguments from the parties, with the appellant self-representing, the court was exceedingly unanimous in its... More
This is an application for reinstatement of an appeal, which was not deemed to have been dismissed, but was by consent, struck off at the hearing on 24 November 2020 in SC 99/20, for the reason (per para 18 of the applicant’s founding affidavit) that the applicant “had failed to file heads of argument as required by the rules of this Honourable Court”. More
