The first respondent filed summons against the applicant and the second respondent on 12 November 2021 jointly and severally one paying the other to be absolved claiming for:
(i) Damages in the sum of US$70 000 or equivalent in local currency at the prevailing official rate at the time of payment.
(ii) Interest thereon at 10% per annum from the date of summons to the date of final payment.
(iii) Costs of suit.
The applicant was served with the summons on 20 November 2021. Applicant filed its notice of appearance to defend and request for further particulars on 24 November... More
This is an application for bail pending appeal. On 15th July 2020 the applicant was convicted by the Regional Court sitting at Beitbridge on a charge of rape as defined in section 65 (1) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act (Chapter 9:23). The applicant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment of which 3 years was suspended for 5 years on condition of future good behaviour.
Aggrieved by the conviction and sentence, the applicant noted an appeal against both conviction and sentence. In this application for bail pending appeal the applicant contends that his appeal carries bright prospects of... More
This is a contested application for bail pending trial. Applicant is facing 2 counts of rape in contravention of section 65 (1) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act (Chapter 9:23). He faces a further charge of impersonating a public official as defined in section 179 (1) of the Criminal Code. Applicant faces further charges of fraud and theft. In the rape charge, it is alleged that the applicant raped two complainants he had hired as Nurse Aides. On the charge of impersonation he allegedly misrepresented to Dumisani Mhlanga, the Managing Director of Ingwebu Breweries that he was the... More
DUBE-BANDA J:This is an application for bail pending appeal. The applicant was arraigned before the Regional Magistrate’s Court sitting in Bulawayo, on two counts of rape as defined in section 65 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The allegations against him were briefly as follows: that on a date to the prosecutor unknown, but sometime during the month of April 2019, at number 28 Northway Burnside (house) Bulawayo he had sexual intercourse several times and on different occasions with the two complaints without their consent or realizing that there was a real risk or possibility that... More
The applicant’s property, No. 46 Manningdale, Lot 2 of Lot KN Willsgrove, also known as No. 46 Essexvale, Bulawayo Township was sold in execution of a debt. More
