The appellant is a public prosecutor who among other duties represents the State in bail matters on the authority of the Prosecutor General. He appeared before the Anti-Corruption Court at Harare Magistrates Court charged with criminal abuse of duty as a Public Officer as defined in s 174 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law Codification & Reform Act [Chapter 9:23].On 8 December 2020 he appeared in the High Court representing the State in a bail application filed by certain suspects namely Mussa Taj Abdul, Tapiwa Rudolf Kamhanga and Godfrey Mupamhanga who were facing a multiplicity of robbery in aggravating circumstances... More
We heard this appeal on 21 October, 2015. We delivered an ex tempore judgment in which we allowed the appeal, set aside the sentence of the court a quo and substituted it with a reduced term of imprisonment a portion of which we suspended for a period of time on condition of future good conduct. More
This is a court application for an order for eviction. The facts are that on 8 May 2017 the Master of the High Court acting in terms of s 120 of the Administration of Estates Act [Chapter 6.01] authorized the first respondent Oliver Masomera (in his capacity as the Executor Dative of the Estate Late Joseph Tawurayi Punungwe DR 2910/16) to sell the immovable property described as Stand No. 208 Malvern Township of Lot 1 of Stand 27 Malvern Township of Waterfall Villa of Waterfall also known as House No. 27A Cassino Avenue, Waterfalls, Harare. More
On the 25th of September 2020, applicant was arrested for a charge of murder as defined in s 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23]. On 29 September, 2020 he was placed on remand where upon he was advised to apply for bail at the High Court as he was facing a third schedule offence. This is his application for bail pending trial. More
The applicant was convicted of two counts of stock theft and one count of extortion. He was sentenced to 9 years’ imprisonment in respect of each count of stock theft. In respect of the charge of extortion he was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment of which 6 months were suspended for 5 years on condition of good behaviour. A further 6 months were suspended on condition of restituting $200 to Bekithemba Ndlovu on or before 28 February 2019. Appeal against conviction and sentence was noted in December 2018. The applicant now seeks bail pending determination of the appeal. More
