This matter relates to two appeals. As both records were placed before us we decided to determine both appeals together. The first appeal is an appeal against the magistrates Court sitting at Chinhoyi dated 26 April 2005. In this case the court made an order for the eviction of the appellant from house 255 Kuwadzana Banket, payment of rent in the sum of Z$20 000 per month from date 8 July 2003 and costs of suit. Following the noting of an appeal by the appellant against this judgment, the respondent applied for and was granted leave to execute the order... More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Magistrates Court, sitting at Harare on the 11th of May 2007, dismissing the appellant’s application for bail. The appellant was arrested two days before on a charge of contravening section 3 of the Gold Trade Act [Chapter 21:03], viz. for unlawfully possessing gold without a licence or permit. The penalty prescribed for the offence, as recently amended, is a mandatory prison term of 5 to 10 years in the absence of special circumstances. More
The applicant, a former constable in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, was charged with and convicted of contravening paragraph 11 of the Schedule to the Police Act as read with sections 29 and 34 of the same. He was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment and was subsequently discharged from the police service. More
The applicants filed an application for a declaratory order whose draft reads as follows-
“Whereupon after reading documents filed of record and hearing counsel;
It Is Ordered That
1. The 1st and 2nd Respondents’ failure to furnish the Applicants with reasons for their decisions is unlawful and wrongful.
2. The Applicants’ discharge from the Police service is accordingly set aside.
3. The Respondents are ordered to reinstate the Applicants into the Police service forthwith.
4. The Respondents are ordered to pay costs of suit on a punitive scale More
