The applicant is a serving member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and holds the rank of constable. He filed this application through the urgent chamber book seeking an interim order for the stay of proceedings pending the outcome of two High Court applications he filed with this court. There cases are HC CAPP 55/23 and HC CAPP 61/23. More
The following are the reasons informing my decision to dismiss applicant’s quest to have the decision of the 1st respondent set aside on review. The reasons are and provided at the behest of the applicant who has since mounted an appeal against that decision. The review application attacked the decision of the 1st respondent to refuse discharge the applicant at the close of the case for the prosecution. The applicant is currently on trial in terms of internal disciplinary proceedings conducted under the Police Act, [Chapter 11:10]. More
Sometime in September 2019 the applicant and the 1st respondent entered into a written contract in terms of which the latter authorised the applicant to carry out mining activities onthe said mining location,foundwithin a mine calledPrince 3 mine, Registration Number 15124BM. In return the applicant agreed to pay a royalty fee of 18% of the value of the ore it so mined. It was a further term of the contract that it would subsist for a period of sixty months calculated from the date of its signing renewable at the conclusion of that initial period should the parties soagreed.The 2nd... More
This was a civil appeal from the magistrate’s court. We heard it on 26 June 2019 and reserved judgment. Regrettably, judgment could not be delivered soon enough. For much of the first term vacation and part of the second term I was indisposed. This now is the appeal judgment More
US$53 820 (Fifty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty united state dollars) is a substantial sum of money, whichever way one looks at it. It is a sum that has the potential of unlocking many possibilities. Defrauding a supposed business partner of that sum of money almost invariablyinvites upon the offender a deserved stint in gaol. The appellant in the present matter, however simplycannot stomach such a prospect. This is despite having candidly admittedhaving employed guile and deception to defraud the complainant of the said sum of money in cash. On the 10th of November we delivered an ex-tempore judgment in... More
