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: This is an urgent chamber application for interdictory relief. The terms of the provisional order sought are as follows: “TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT That you show cause to the Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms: - The application be and is hereby granted. The provisional order issued by this court on ........be and is hereby confirmed. The offer letters authored by the 3rd and 4th respondents in the first and second respondents’ favour in respect of stands 41625 and 41626 Mount Pleasant be and are hereby set aside. The agreement... More

1. This is an appeal against sentence only. 2. The appellant was convicted of rape as defined in S 65(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment of which three years imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour, to leave an effective custodial term of seventeen years imprisonment. 3. The trial court rejected the appellant’s defence that the act of sexual intercourse was consensual. Aggrieved with the conviction and sentence the appellant sought leave to appeal the conviction and sentence out of time and... More

This is an application for bail pending appeal. The applicant was convicted by the Regional Magistrate at Harare of the offence of rape as defined in s 65 (1) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:33]. The allegations against the applicant which he denied were briefly that the applicant and the complainant (aged 17 years old) were neighbours residing at Zimbabwe National Army 2 Brigade Flats in Cranborne. The applicant during the night of 27 February, 2017 knocked on the door to the complainant’s residence but on seeing him, she shut the door. More

This is an appeal against conviction on six counts of unlawful entry into premises as defined in s 131 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The appellant was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on each count. Of the total 30 years imprisonment 2 years imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual condition of good behaviour. A further 8 years imprisonment was suspended on condition of restitution. The appellant’s motor vehicle was forfeited to the state. More

: For wanting to be declared the lawful holder of rights, title and interests in the property known as stand number 6387 Retreat Waterfalls Harare, and for first respondent to vacate the said stand to give applicant vacant possession, applicant approached this court in terms of section 14 of the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06] (THE ACT) applying for a declaratur. More