This is an application for an interdict in which the applicants seek a mandatory interdict against the respondents, compelling them to pay the applicants their end of project benefits as per their promise. The applicants are all former employees of Constitution Parliament Select Committee (COPAC) mandated to draft the Constitution of Zimbabwe. COPAC winded up their activities in 2013 by drafting a draft constitution and submitting a report to the Parliament of Zimbabwe. More
This matter was initially set down for hearing on 11 June 2009 on which date it was postponed to 10 July 2009. It was again postponed a number of times and was finally heard on 3 February 2011 after which date the court called for supplementary heads of argument from both legal practitioners for reasons appearing later in this judgment. More
The applicant seeks a declaratur to the effect that he paid the full purchase price in terms of an agreement of sale between the parties dated 20 October 2016. The order sought is also to the effect that the payments of the deposit plus monthly instalments, from December 2017 to August 2020 by the applicant to the respondent’s bank account, were in accordance with the agreed terms of sale agreement between the parties. Ancillary relief is also sought in that the applicant seeks that the respondent be ordered to sign all necessary documents to effect transfer of ownership to him... More
This is an urgent chamber application wherein the applicant seeks the following relief;
‘TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
That you show cause to the Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms—
1. That the third respondent be and is hereby directed to cancel the Deed of Transfer passed in favour of the first respondent over a certain 300 square metres of land called stand 10346 Kuwadzana Township of Fountainbleu Estate situate in the district of Salisbury.
2. That the party opposing to bear the costs of this application on the higher scale of... More
The appellant approached this court challenging the decision of the nomination court sitting at Harare on 21 June 2023. The nomination court declined to register the appellant as the presidential candidate for the 2023 general election. The appellant’s assault of the nomination court’s decision is based on the three following grounds:
“(i) The 1st respondent erred in rejecting appellant’s nomination papers when sufficient evidence had been presented that a deposit of the prescribed nomination fee had been paid through a ZWL Bank transfer amounting to ZWL$138 531 528 using the rate of US$1:ZWL$6 926.58 as advised by 3rd respondent.
(ii)... More
