This is an application for condonation for late noting of an appeal. The applicant was convicted of eight counts of armed robbery and ten counts of attempted robbery. He was found to have been on a car-jacking spree between 14 and 30 April 2003 in Bulawayo in the company of some foreigners. He was sentenced on 20 January 2006 as follows:
“Counts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 – five years imprisonment (each count).
Counts 4 and 9 as one for sentence - five years imprisonment
Total 45 years imprisonment. Of the total of 45 years imprisonment... More
The applicant is employed by the respondent as a revenue officer. The dispute between the parties relates to the alleged non-payment of the applicant’s salary by the respondent. The basic facts of the dispute are common cause. The respondent as part of its staff development has a policy wherein employees are permitted to improve themselves academically or otherwise. To that end they may take study leave on conditions which are laid out in a document called “ZMIRA Staff Training and Development Policy”. The policy document provides for study leave of a maximum thirteen days in a calendar year. This type... More
Applicant filed an application for a declarator in which he is seeking that the forensic audit report conducted by the 4th and 5th respondents on the affairs of 1st and 2nd respondents be declared unlawful and that 3rd, 4th and 5th respondents bear costs of the application on the higher scale.
At the commencement of this hearing, respondents’ counsel raised 5 preliminary points, which are that:
1. Applicant is making out a new case in the answering affidavit
2. There are material disputes of facts
3. 5th respondent does not exist in the manner it was cited
4. 3rd, 4th... More
After hearing and assessing the evidence led in this case, on 27th of March 2013 I pronounced the following order;-
“ Consequently I order as follows:-
1. The defendant and all those claiming occupation or ownership through him of subdivision 1 of Roslin farm in Seke District of Mashonaland East Province measuring approximately 390.58 hectares in extent be and are hereby evicted from the said farm on or before 30 May 2013. More
