[ 1] Applicant is a constitutional entity responsible for the administration of the judicial service in Zimbabwe. Respondent is a former Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe. She was removed from office on 17 June 2021 in circumstances briefly outlined below. Her removal triggered a series of legal suits between respondent, applicant and various other parties related to, or associated with applicant.
[ 2] This duplicity in litigation is reflected in the case of another former Judge of the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, Mr. Francis Bere. The various disputes between Mr. Bere and the present applicant... More
The plaintiff initially claimed payment of US$350 and US$250 respectively for unpaid rentals and malicious damage to her property. She also sought damages for pain and suffering in the sum of US$2500 for unlawful arrest on a charge of extortion instigated by the defendant. The defendant used to be the plaintiff’s tenant in certain cottages owned by the plaintiff at a property in Greendale, Harare. More
The applicant and the first respondent are husband and wife being married in terms of the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11] and the marriage still subsists. What has brought the parties before the court is not a matrimonial dispute but consequences arising from a commercial transaction concluded between the first respondent and the second respondent Tynserve Distributors (Pvt) Ltd. The latter has attached half share of a jointly owned property. More
This chamber application was placed before me curiously titled, “Chamber application for the Master’s Consent in terms of order 32, Rule 249(1) (b). The relief sought was the ‘approval’ for the sale of stand 16834 Ruwa township of Sebastopol measuring 300 square metres held under Deed no. 3534/2009. This property is currently registered in the names of the applicant and her minor child one Ryan Tafadzwa Chipere. The chamber application in its heading completely misses the mark as it is not the role of the Master of the High Court to ‘consent’ to sales of properties belonging to a minor... More
This is an application for the setting aside of the decision of the first respondent, the Master of the High Court (hereinafter referred to as “the Master”), in terms of which the first respondent dismissed an objection to the Second Interim Liquidation and Distribution Account prepared by the second respondent in respect of the company known as Kunganda Farm (Private) Limited. More
