This is an application for contempt of court. The background to this application is that the applicants were the owners of Disi Farm (the farm). The farm has since been acquired by the state. The respondent was issued with an offer letter for subdivision 7 (Plot 7) of the farm by the minister responsible for land resettlement on 24 June 2008. When he moved onto the plot, he locked the tobacco grading shed, the irrigation pump station and borehole thereby denying the applicants access to the infrastructure. The applicants approached this court and on 18 August 2008, successfully obtained, in... More
The plaintiff claims for damages for breach of contract arisingto an oral agreement entered into between him on one hand and the defendant on the other; interest at the prescribed rate together with costs of suit. At the pre-trial conference the issues were identified as: More
They allege, on the merits, that the applicant’s title to the farm is defective on account of the claim that the same had already been allocated to them when the lease came into existence. They aver that the lease was acquired fraudulently or through gross misrepresentation. The lease, they claim, is defective in the sense that it was granted over the farm which they occupy. They insist that the Minister of Land (“the Minister”) gave offer letters to them. They aver that the Minister could not have validly passed title to the applicant when they validly held title to the... More
This is an application in terms of r 59 of the Rules of this Honourable Court, 2021 for the confirmation of cancellation of an agreement of sale entered into by applicant and the first respondent over Stand Number 1258 GoodHope Township of Lot 16 of Goodhope Harare measuring 2000 square metres on 12 April 2018. The material terms of the Agreement of Sale were that the full purchase price in terms of clause 1 of the said agreement was US$45 000 which was to be paid in instalments with the initial deposit of US$30 000 being paid within five days... More
