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DUBE-BANDA J: This is an application for bail pending trial. Applicant is being charged with the crime of robbery as defined in section 126 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. It being alleged that on the 26 March 2021, applicant in the company of other six accomplices used violence, or threats of immediate violence upon one Zenzo Proud Nkomo to relinquish control over 200 kgs of pregnant gold carbons and one 303 rifle, the property of Lone Mine (complainant). More

This is an application brought to this court in terms of section 4 (1) of the Administrative Justice Act Chapter 10:28. It is an application to set aside the determination by the Master of the High Court (herein cited as 1st respondent), wherein on 8th of August 2019, she declared the last Will and Testament of the Late Tulli Ndlovu Mathiya as void due to a subsequent customary law union that he contracted with the 2nd respondent, namely Lomangwe Ndiweni. More

TAKUVA J: This is an Urgent Chamber Application for Mandament Van Spolie and Interdict . Applicant seeks an order in the following terms; “1. Respondent be and is hereby ordered to immediately restore applicant to peaceful and undisturbed possession of DW61A Tuli Flats Westgate Security Camp, Bulawayo. 2. Respondent be and is hereby ordered to immediately cause their employee who now resides at applicant’s house to vacate the premises and handover all keys and locks to the applicant. 3. The Sheriff of the High Court be and is hereby directed to evict anyone and everyone who does not claim occupation... More

MABHIKWA J: The applicant filed anapplication for condonation forlate filing of an application for review in terms of Order 3 Rule 359 of the High Court Rules, 1971. She sought the relief that it be ordered that; “1. The application for condonation of the late noting of an application for review be and is hereby granted. 2. The applicant be and is hereby granted leave to file the application for review of the proceedings in DRGK 92/10 within ten (10) days of this order. 3. The 2nd to 3rd respondents are to pay the costs of this application on a... More

This is an urgent application for the custody of Matilda Panashe Shonhiwa a girl born on 13 June 2002. At the hearing of the matter I dismissed the application and gave an ex tempore judgment. Applicant has since sought written reasons for my judgment and I give them herein. The child being the subject matter of this application is aged about 17 years old. She has been staying with her biological father and her step mother. On one day she left home for school and she never returned. She left school in a taxi that she had no money to... More