The plaintiff instituted proceedings against the defendant on 18 March 2011 seeking contractual damages arising from what she perceived to be an unlawful cancellation of an agreement of sale of a vacant stand entered into between the parties. More
On 24 August 2012 the applicant filed an urgent chamber application seeking a provisional order couched in the following:
“Interim Relief
Pending the return date –
1. The Zimbabwe 2012 edition of the Students In Free Enterprise competition is hereby suspended; and
2. The first respondent is hereby interdicted from performing any act calculated or likely to hinder the applicant’s participation in the 2012 SIFE World Cup scheduled for 23 September 2012.” More
The appellants and two others appeared before the magistrates court and were jointly charged with fraud as defined in s 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (“the Code”). The latter (Faroza and Chiguware) were discharged at the close of the State’s case. The appellants were acquitted of fraud but convicted on the permissible verdict of theft as defined in s 113 of the Code.
The first appellant was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment of which 12 months imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour. A further 18 months imprisonment... More
The plaintiff is resident in the United Kingdom. Sometime in 2003, he telephoned one Simbarashe Sagonda and Thomas Makwangudze, relatives of his, to proceed to view a property that was being offered for sale through the agency of the second defendant. The property, whose description and location in Ruwa was known to the second defendant’s property negotiator, “Nyasha”, is owned by the first defendant who holds freehold title to the land. More
The applicant has made numerous applications in pursuit of bail pending appeal. The record shows he filed an application for bail pending the determination of an application for leave to appeal out of time which was pending under case number CON 319/19. That application was filed on 7 November 2019. The applicant filed a supplementary bail statement on 9 December 2019. The application was removed from roll by NDEWERE J on 14 November 2019. The reason for the removal of the application from the roll was that the applicant was required to first obtain leave to appeal out of time... More
