As its name implies, the applicant is a housing cooperative society set up with the noble objective of providing accommodation to its members. The respondent is a member of the applicant. Stand 7296 Budiriro 4, is a property developed by the applicant and allocated to the respondent for his occupation. More
This is an application for summary judgment. The basis of the application is that sometime in 2010 respondent was supplied upon request on credit, cake flour by the applicant to its various branches throughout the country. The cake flour was valued at US$828 518.05. This amount was due and payable on 7 December 2010. Respondent acknowledged its indebtedness by securing US$700 000.00 via a surety mortgage bond number 1020/2010 by a company called Medworth Properties (Pvt) Ltd. A further US$218 240.00 was acknowledged via an acknowledgement of debt signed by respondent on 27 October 2010. Given the foregoing, the appearance... More
Before me were three matters divided into Volume I, Volume II AND Volume III.
Volume I is a court application under HC 5594/21 pitting MUGODHI APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH and DAVISON MANGOMA and 35 other named respondents. The application is for an interdict to bar respondents from entering into any of the first applicant’s premises or from interfering in any manner with its congregants, members, leaders, activities programmes and gatherings of its members. More
This matter was set down for hearing on the 2nd of July 2021 as an opposed application. However, neither the respondent nor his legal practitioners appeared for the hearing despite the respondent’s legal practitioners being served with the notice of set down. Resultantly, Mr Sithole applied for a default judgment to be granted in favour of the applicant. More
The appellant,despite his protestations of innocence, was convicted of plain robbery as defined in s 126 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act,[Cap9:23]. He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment with one year suspended on appropriate conditions. He still protests his innocence and seeks this court’s intervention over his grievance of improper conviction and sentence. This is a classical case in which the dangers of relying on the uncorroborated evidence of a single witness are well demonstrated. I will demonstrate. More
