Sometime in January 2019, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions called for a nationwide stay away principally as a reaction against fuel price increases. It turned out that the events did not result in a stay away but blocking of major public roads, spikes, nails, boulders, tree trunks, tyres, drums and scrap metals were piled on the roads and in some instances human shield was used to thwart both human and automobile traffic. The applicant participated in this “stay away” and the end product of all this activity was an enormous number of people were arrested by the police, indeed...
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This is an appeal against the whole judgment and order handed down by a Magistrate sitting at Nyanga on 8 October 2020 where the court a quo granted an order in favour of the respondent interdicting appellant from gaining entrance into Claremont Secondary School premises, constructing a fireguard within and around the said school and barring appellant from erecting a fence around and within the respondent school
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On 30 September 2020 we dismissed an appeal against sentence lodged by the appellant. We gave an extempore judgment and undertook to avail the written reasons in due course.
These are they:
The appellant was convicted by the Regional Magistrate Mutare following his plea to Robbery as defined in s 126 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The brief facts of the matter being that the appellant together with accomplices used force and violence threatening the complainants with a pistol, machete using a rope to assault the complainants caused the complainants to relinquish control...
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