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On 12 May 2020, the applicant filed this court application seeking an order to set aside a consent order granted on 12 February 2020. It prayed that the consent order handed down at Bulawayo on the 12 February 2020 under case number HC 320/2020 be set-aside; the interim relief prayed for by respondents in case number HC 320/2020 be and is hereby granted in lieu of the consent order; applicants be and hereby ordered to file their notice of opposition within 10 days of this order and that there be no order as to costs. More

This is an urgent chamber application in which the applicants seek an order couched thus; “TERMS OF THE FINAL ORDER SOUGHT That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms: 1. That no mining activities, milling and carrying of ores should be carried out at RA MID002 in the mining district of Midlands measuring 45 hectares until the resolution of the mining dispute by the 2nd respondent or an order by a court of competent jurisdiction. 2. Respondents to pay costs of suit on an attorney client scale if... More

The applicants approached this court by urgent chamber application filed on 18 June 2018 seeking urgent interim relief in the form of a temporary interdict couched as follows: More

DUBE-BANDA J: This is an appeal against the entire judgment of the magistrate’s court sitting at Tredgold Bulawayo, dated 18 September 2019. The court a quo ordered appellants to pay respondent, jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved, the sum of US$ 53 969.85; interest at the prescribed rate calculated from the date of summons to the date of final payment; and costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale. Appellant was aggrieved by the judgment and noted an appeal in this court. In the main, the appeal is about whether the court a... More

1. This is an application for bail pending trial. The applicant is charged with the crime of murder as defined in section 47 (1) of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. It being alleged that on the 3rd November 2022 at around 2300 hours at Msotsha Bar, Nkankezi Business Centre, Filabusi the accused acting in common purpose with an accomplice still at large caused the death of Benito Dube (deceased). It is alleged further that the applicant stabbed the deceased with an Okapi knife, once on the back, once on the left side of the stomach, and... More