The first and second applicants are elected councilors for Wards 17 and 24 forHarare and Bulawayo City Councils respectively. They were elected into office in July 2018 on tickets of a political party called the People’s Democratic Party(PDP)which contested the elections under a coalition of political parties going by the moniker MDC-A.First applicant is also the mayor of Harare. More
The applicant was a councilor for Mt Pleasant and also a mayor of Harare City council. The allegations where that the applicant in the period between 1 March 2020 and 31 March 2020 asked one Addmore Nhekairo who was the Director of Housing, to allocate residential stands to Rotina Mafume his sister and Rutendo Muvuti a work colleague at Mafume Law Chambers. It was further alleged that at the time this request came, the interviews for Westlea stands had already closed and the two beneficiaries were not on the waiting list therefore did not have waiting list numbers. The applicant... More
This is an appeal made in terms of s 121 (1) of the Criminal Procedure & Evidence Act [Chapter 9:23] (“the CPEA”) as read with r 6 (1) of the High Court of Zimbabwe Bail Rules, 1971, pursuant to the Magistrates Court’s dismissal of the appellant’s application for bail pending trial. More
The appellant was convicted by the Magistrates Court of Culpable Homicide in terms of s 49 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reformation Act [Chapter 9:23]. More
This is an application for bail pending appeal against sentence only. The applicant was convicted on two counts of stock theft as defined in s 114 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification And Reform) Act [Cap 9.23]. He pleaded guilty to both counts and was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment on each count on 10 September 2007 and is serving an effective sentence of 18 years imprisonment. The applicant successfully applied for condonation of late noting of his appeal which was granted by ORMAJEE J on 23 March 2011 in case No. 1410/09. He has since filed his appeal... More
