This application was filed through an urgent chamber book. The circumstances were that sometime in December 2016 the applicant’s son who is a form four pupil with the first respondent was alleged to have committed some acts of misconduct which were inter alia theft of a text book and $21-00 from a fellow student. More
The applicant seeks interim custody of the two minor children on the basis that the respondent, who was by consent awarded custody on 16 June 2005, has denied him access to the children. In addition he averred that the respondent has relocated to South Africa and has left the children in the care of her mother in Bulawayo. The respondent did not only oppose the application but filed a counter application seeking authority to remove the children from the jurisdiction of this Court. The applicant also opposed her counter application. More
The applicant and the third respondent had competing claims over the same mining block, called New Year 89.Both of them had valid registration certificates over it. These had been duly issued by the first respondent, the mining commissioner. The first respondent hadresolved the dispute in favour of the third respondent. The applicant had appealed to the second respondent, the Minister of Mines and Mineral Development. The appeal had been dismissed. The applicant then applied to this court for review. But his application wasout of time. So he applied for condonation. More
1. On 22 September 2016 the Regional Court sitting at Mutare convicted the appellant, a 35 year old Congolese refugee, of raping an 8 month old baby girl at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge. More
