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SAMSON MAGORA AND ELISON MABIKA AND AND EMERESS MHARE AND DAVID ZIHWA AND VERSUS RUNDE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL AND ZVISHAVANE TOWN COUNCIL AND CHIEF MASUNDA AND THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR ZVISHAVANE AND MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC WORKS AND NATIONAL HOUSING AND MINISTER OF LANDS, AGRICULTURE, WATER CLIMATE AND RURAL RESETTLMENT EUNICE ROVI AND KENEDY ZINHATA AND SHARON GONDO AND MEMORY DZIVA AND WEZA AKIKA AND FUTURE SIBANDA AND GEORGE GANIZANI AND ABIGAIL KOKE AND SIBONGILE SIBANDA AND SHARON KOKE AND NDHLERA PATRICIA JEVAS NYONI AND PROSPER CHAKAVANDA AND FRANCES MAKORE AND ELIZABETH SIZIBA AND LINET MASHANDURE AND NOREST MUTARANI AND FORWARD BOTARAWA AND DOLANI MSIMANGA AND GEORGE GWERENA AND SEKAI MATSA AND MANVEL CHAZETI AND ANAR MATUVHE AND JAMESON MABIKA AND LENA MALUNGA AND FANI PHIRI AND THANDIWE SHAVA AND TENDAI MADZIVA AND CONSTANTINE MAKAMURE AND LAMECK PHIRI AND M (2022-11-02)
The plaintiffs are all residents of Mudereri Village under Chief Masunda in the Zvishavane Communal area. By virtue of its proximity to Zvishavane Town, the village is fast transforming into a peri-urban residential settlement under the jurisdiction of the Zvishavane Town Council, the second defendant herein. A dispute has however arisen between the plaintiffs and the defendants following what the plaintiffs consider to be the forced annexure of their land by the fifth defendant and incorporating it into the area under the second defendant’s jurisdiction. As a result of that dispute, the plaintiffs’ caused summons to be issued out of... More

The plaintiff issued summons seeking an order for divorce of their civil marriage contracted on 16 April 1993. He sought a decree of divorce and other ancillary issues. The defendant entered an appearance to defend and subsequent pleadings thereto. At pretrial conference stage the parties came up with a joint PTC minute. At trial the issues were narrowed down by consent of both the plaintiff and the defendant. The parties agreed that the marriage relationship between them had irretrievably broken down to such an extent that there are no reasonable prospects of restoration of a normal marriage relationship. More

The applicant seeks the grant of an order in the following terms: “1. That on service of this order upon the second respondent, the said second respondent cause to be paid out of its account with the third respondent such a sum as will satisfy the judgment issued out of this Honourable Court in cases number HC 6220/13 and HC 10786/14. 2. That should the second respondent fail to pay the applicant as required in terms of paragraph 1, then the third respondent is restrained from paying to the second respondent any proceeds in an account No. 06109-01120051570077, Kwame Nkrumah... More

The plaintiff issued summons on 23 July 2007 claiming the following relief: “(a) An order declaring that the only families entitled to the Mapanzure chieftainship are the following families: 1. Chimbuya 2. Magwirokona 3. Mavhengere 4. Bwangundoga 5. Mupandasekwa 6. Gwenhamo 7. Shumbayaonda; More

This is an appeal against both the conviction and sentence. [2] The appellant and four others were convicted after a protracted trial on a charge of tampering with apparatus for the supply or generation of electricity as defined in s 60A of the Electricity Act [Chapter 13:19]. [3] The Regional Court sitting at Karoi having found no special circumstances, sentenced each to the mandatory minimum 10 years imprisonment. More