: The appellants and Linceman Usaihwevhu were jointly charged with one count of bribery. They pleaded not guilty. Linceman was acquitted at the end of the state case. The appellants were put on their defence and were subsequently convicted and each sentenced to 12 months imprisonment of which 2 months were suspended on conditions of good behaviour. The $1500.00 they had offered to the Police officer was forfeited to the state. More
The parties contracted a customary union in 2006. On 29 November, 2008, the parties upgraded their union into a Civil Marriage in terms of the Marriage Act, [Chapter 5:11]. The plaintiff had a daughter, Tadiwanashe, from a previous relationship while the defendant had two daughters from a previous marriage. There was no child born out of the marriage between the parties. The marriage certificate was produced as exh 1. More
The appellant was charged with and convicted on one count of stock theft. He had pleaded not guilty to the charge. The brief facts of the case are that the appellant is alleged to have connived with five others to steal the complainant’s two oxen from farm Number 195 Rowa West Zimunya, Mutare. He is alleged to have hired Antony Chinyamutangira to transport two slaughtered oxen from the Zimunya area, to his house. He is alleged to have taken Wedzerai Masunda, Charles Masvosva, Alfred Sando Louis and Paul Feausi to Antony Chinyamutangira’s house in Chikanga. Antony Chinyamutangira and the four... More
In July 2009, my brother HLATSHWAYO J, heard an application under case number HC 4327/08 as consolidated with another application under case number HC 2792/09. The parties to those applications were the Diocesan Trustees of the Diocese of Harare (as applicants) and the Church of the Province of Central Africa (as respondents). In this judgment I shall refer to the latter as “the mother church”. In that consolidated application, HLATSHWAYO J made an order declaring Bishop Dr Nolbert Kunonga and six others to be the Diocesan Trustees of the Diocese of Harare, a diocese under the mother church. It was... More
The plaintiff’s claim is for the eviction of the defendant from 7.5 Mile peg Simon Mazorodze Road, Waterfalls, Harare, payment of arrear rentals in the sum of US$31 500-00, holding over damages in the sum of $1 500-00, being monthly rentals from April 2015 to date of eviction, payment of arrear water bill in the sum of US$20 800-00 as of March 2015, payment of current water bill that shall be accruing from the date of issuing the summons to the date of eviction. More
