On 21 October, 2019 at around 17:30 hours, the applicant was driving a public service vehicle, a Toyota Hiace registration number ABJ 4962 along Simon Mazorodze road, on the outer lane of the road. When he reached Mbare Police District Headquarters, the accused person knocked down the deceased, a 6 year old boy who was crossing the road from west to east. The deceased died soon after the impact. The State charged the applicant with culpable homicide and alleged that the applicant was negligent in one or more of the following particulars of negligence More
In a nutshell the dispute arose over a beneficiaries’ sharing agreement entered into by members of the Chigumba Family after the death of the head of the family Stanslas Tonderayi Chigumba (the deceased). The deceased passed on on 11 December 2006. The beneficiaries sharing agreement was entered into on 29 May 2018. The dispute is essentially between Richard Kudzanai Chigumba (the applicant in the main case) and Taurai Cliff Chigumba (the first respondent in the main case). In the counter application Taurai Cliff Chigumba is the applicant while Richard Kudzanai Chigumba is the first respondent. For expediency I will refer... More
The applicants were arraigned before the magistrates’ court facing one count of contravening section 134 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act [chapter 9.23], extortion. It was alleged that on 6 February 2009, they unlawfully obtained a vehicle from the complainant by threatening that he would be detained in police cells if the applicants were not paid the sum of $4 000-00. Both applicants denied the charge but were convicted after trial. They were each sentenced to five years imprisonment with one year suspended for five years on condition of future good behaviour. Dissatisfied with both the conviction and... More
The applicants filed an application for review seeking an order nullifying the sale of a property being Stand 1249 Rugare Township, Harare which was sold in the administration of the Estate Late Shingirai MamutseDR No. 1421/15. At the conclusion of the parties’ submissions on points raised in limineI handed down an extempore judgment dismissing the application with costs on a legal practitioner and client scale. More
The applicant approached this court on a certificate of urgency seeking an interim interdict and on the return date a final order.
The background facts are that the applicant has been engaged in protracted litigation with first and second respondents over Dana A Farm, Goromonzi. The dispute has been in this court, in the Supreme Court, the Lands Commission and before fourthrespondent. More
