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...
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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
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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...
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The first and second plaintiffs are husband and wife. But for seven years from 2003 to 2010 the second plaintiff [“Herbert”] cohabited with the defendant [“Kudzanai”]. Much of that cohabitation was at a property situate Stand 453 Northwood, Mberengwa Business Centre, Mberengwa.
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The applicants seek the following relief: -
1. The Great Zimbabwe University Pension Fund Benefit Reduction Resolution dated 19 January 2017 pursuant to a meeting of the respondents held on 8th of December 2016 at Masvingo in terms of which the employer contribution rate was reduced from 17,29% to 7,5% effective October 2012 and the Group Life Assurance benefit was reduced from four times to two times annual salary effective 1st January 2017 is declared invalid, unlawful in its entirety and consequently set aside and the status quoante is restored.
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