The applicant filed an application for a final interdict in respect of a mining claim known as SARAMINE ‘A’, situate in Kwekwe District, under certificate of registration number 30705. Previously, the mine was registered in 2002 by the applicant’s mother who worked upon the mining claims. The respondent opposes the grant of the interdict and avers that the mining claim encroaches on to the respondent’s Woodridge Plot. It is common cause that the respondent is the holder of a certificate of occupancy in respect of Plot number 6 Woodridge, measuring 40 hectares in extent. The certificate of occupancy was issued... More
The applicant, who was a man of the cloth at the time, was convicted of contravening section 67 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23. More
1. This is an application to set aside a sale in execution. The applicant seeks an order couched in the following terms:
i. That the sale in execution of iron ore fines stockpile at Mukwakwe Plan site 338, Mberengwa in Midlands Province done by the 1st respondent in execution of court order under case number HC 12423/15 be and is hereby set aside. More
The appellant appeared in the Magistrate Court sitting at Western Commonage, Bulawayo on an alleged breach of section 49 (1) (b) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act (Chapter 9:23), that is culpable homicide. The specific allegation being that on the 4th of January 2017 and at the Bulawayo City Council’s landfill site adjacent to Entembeni Road, Pumula South, the appellant caused the death of one Tinashe Chiparamura by digging up gravel pits and leaving them open, thereby trapping water in which the deceased drowned. In so, doing the state alleged, the appellant realised or ought to have foreseen... More
On the 23rd of March 2020, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster in the wake of the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic which had already been declared by the World Health Organisation as a global pandemic. In declaring a state of disaster, all arms of Government were enjoined to take extraordinary measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus. In that regard, the Government issued a directive to Local Authorities styled “Guidelines for the Resilient Food Supply Chain System During and After the Lockdown.” In compliance with that directive, on 26th April 2020 the City of... More
