The plaintiff issued summons against the four defendants claiming payment by the defendant of the sum of US$70 505.05 being the capital sum to be used to purchase pension benefits from a registered pension fund to be nominated by the plaintiff, interest on the aforesaid sum at the prescribed rate calculated from the date of the summons to the date of full payment as well as costs of suit. More
Matirasa Katsvairo and Tawainga Arnold Katsvairo who are the first and second respondents contracted a civil marriage on 25 December 1965. The marriage still subsists. In 1979 the applicant and the second respondent entered into an unregistered customary law union. On 8 November 1989 they purported to register a customary law marriage under the African Marriages Act [Chapter 238]. In registering that marriage the second respondent gave his marital status as a person who was already married under the African Marriages Act [Chapter 238]. This purported marriage between the applicant and the second respondent was later declared null and void... More
This is a matrimonial cause wherein it is common cause that the
marriage has irretrievably broken down. The only issue for the determination of the court
was agreed by the parties at a pre-trial conference before as Judge as being -
"What would constitute a fair and reasonable division of the matrimonial assets?" More
This case is founded upon the declaration which was filed by the plaintiff in this court on 25 June 2005 and whose relevant contents can be restated as follows:-
On or about March 1999 the plaintiff and the first defendant entered into an agreement in two parts. The first part was that the parties would jointly purchase property known as the Remainder of Cherutombo, Marondera from Dulys (Private) Limited with the plaintiff paying 1/3 and the first defendant 2/3 of the price that was to be set by Dulys (Private) Limited. More
On 5 October 2017 I dismissed an urgent application filed under Case No. HC 101/10 for want of prosecution and gave my oral reasons for doing so. I indicated that I would give written reasons for doing so for a fuller appreciation by the parties of those oral reasons. More
