ON 1 July 2025 applicant filed a composite application for leave to note an appeal out of time and leave to prosecute an appeal in person. He attached a manuscript affidavit explaining reasons that precipitated the delay which basically touch on ignorance of the laws applicable to appeals from a lower court to a superior court. In his affidavit he also explained the challenges he faced securing a transcribed record. The application is o More
The applicant approached the court through the urgent chamber book seeking a provisional order to interdict the Commissioner General Zimbabwe Republic Police and those acting under his instruction or command from conducting supervised postal ballot voting of any police officer. In the main the applicant sought a declaratur that the conduct of postal ballot voting of police officers of Zimbabwe Republic Police Ross Camp Bulawayo held on 12 July 2018 be declared null and void as it violated the constitution and applicable law. Further the applicant sought that the first respondent, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (hereafter called ZEC) immediately organise, conduct... More
The applicant approached the court through the urgent chamber book seeking for an interdict pendente lite. The order sought seeks to restrain the respondents in particular fourth respondent from evicting and or disrupting the applicant’s farming activities at subdivision 11 of Chipinge West Annex pending the finalisation of proceedings under case number HC 52/18. More
On 12 July 2018 after considering written and oral submissions by both counsel, I gave an extempore judgment dismissing the application for bail pending trial. More
The applicant who is facing four counts of stock theft as defined in s 114 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23], approached the court seeking to be admitted to bail pending trial. It is the State’s contention that on 25 May 2018, 27 May 2018 and on 5 January 2019 the accused unlawfully took 10 cattle knowing that the complainants in the 4 counts were entitled to own or possess or control the livestock or realising that there was a real risk or possibility that the complainants were the owners and entitled to possess or control... More
