This court has time and again held that where an employee stands suspended or dismissed, he ceases to have any right to possess or occupy company property that he had entitlement to use as part of his employment benefits during the tenure of his employment. This is so unless the employee can prove some legal entitlement to continue holding onto the property. This call has generally gone unheeded as this court continues to be swamped with rei vindicatio applications by former employers seeking to reclaim their properties. This is one such case. More
This is an application by the defendants for absolution from the instance at the close of the plaintiff’s case. The plaintiff’s claim which was instituted by way of summons for provisional sentence is for payment of a sum of US$2 506 132-86, together with interest thereon as stated in the summons, collection commission and costs of suit on the attorney-client scale. More
The applicant approached this court, by way of Chamber Book seeking an order in the following terms:
“1. The defendant shall pay to Plaintiff the sum of US$3 629 586.57 together with interest thereon at the rate of 15% per annum calculated from 1st October 2014 to date of full payment.
2.Defendant shall pay Plaintiff’s costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale” More
The applicant is a public company incorporated in terms of the Company laws of Zimbabwe and is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. It has shares in the 6th respondent. It filed an urgent chamber application to this court seeking orders to regulate the holding of an extraordinary general meeting of the 6th respondent’s shareholders convened by the 1st to the 5th respondents. At the hearing of the application, it applied to amend, its draft order by seeking a declaration that the convening of the extra ordinary general meeting, by the 1st to the 5th respondents is in terms of... More
Renowned writer Leslie Flynn authored a text aptly titled Great Church Fights. In it he makes the analogy of two porcupines living in freezing conditions. They huddle together to keep warm. Unfortunately every time they got close to each other their quills pricked and forced them to move apart. The two needed each other but could not stop needling. That analogy epitomizes the dispute before me. As will be shown later in the judgment, disagreements between and amongst Christians typify the condescending attitude of believers when their personalities grate one another. The papers before me show that between October 2021... More
