This is an application to compel a cession of rights, title and interests in Stand 7612 Kwekwe Township to the second applicant, Brainchild Properties (Private) Limited (Brainchild) by the first respondent Brenan James Michael De Bruyn (Mr De Bruyn) and the second respondent Advance Africa Holdings (Private Limited) (Advance Africa). The third respondent, the City of Kwekwe is cited in its capacity as the local authority where the property is situated and whose consent is required. More
The parties got married on 27 April 2013 in terms of the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11]. No children were born out of the marriage. At the pre-trial conference they were agreed that their marriage had irretrievably broken down to the extent that there were no reasonable prospects of restoring it to a normal marriage. I will thus grant a decree of divorce.
Two issues were referred for trial.
a) How is the matrimonial property to be distributed between the parties?
b) Whether the defendant can claim maintenance from the plaintiff? More
The plaintiff has apart from the fourth and fifth defendants, been involved in legal combat with all the other parties in HC 2765/05. In HC 4096/96 he brought an application for his reinstatement as a director in sixth defendant against sixth defendant. He was reinstated. The sixth defendant got its act together and dismissed him as a director on 24 September 1996. He brought another application seeking reinstatement in HC 4157/97. It was contested. BARTLETT J dismissed that application with costs on 17 September 1997. The founding affidavit that launched the present matter is a carbon copy of the application... More
This is an application for a compelling order of the transfer of property namely a certain piece of land situate in the District of Salisbury called Stand 4008 Prospect Township of Stand 104 of Prospect measuring 1 848 square meters (One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty –Eight square metres), the applicant bought from the first respondent. In short this is an application for the firstrespondent to be compelled to give the applicant vacant possession of the above –mentioned property More
On 13 March 2017, I dismissed an application for reinstatement of a court application for joinder which was dismissed under case HC 9454/16. The reasons for my disposition are availed herein. More
