This is an urgent chamber application by the applicant for a provisional order seeking a stay of a criminal trial pending finalisation of an application for review filed on the 24th October 2017. More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award which overturned the Appellant’s Disciplinary Committee’s decision which had found Respondent guilty of misconduct and dismissed him from employment. More
The applicants are erstwhile employees of the respondent. It is common cause that the employment contracts of the applicants were terminated on notice. A dispute arose in relation to quantification of the applicant’s dues consequent on the termination aforesaid. A designated agent L Masvingwe presided over the dispute at Bulawayo and issued the following ruling on 10 May, 2019:
“COURT RULING
WHEREFORE, after carefully analyzing the facts the law, I wake the following ruling
That;
1. The first respondent is ordered to pay the outstanding balances due to D Mazambara and 7 Others a gross total of $194 220.20 according... More
This Urgent Chamber Application seeks to stop the continuation of trial before the second respondent. The applicant was charged with three counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer as defined in section 174 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23. He pleaded not guilty and the trial commenced with the leading of evidence from eight state witnesses. At the close of the state case the applicant applied for a discharge in terms of section 198 (3) of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, Chapter 9:07, which application was dismissed by the second... More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Public Accountants and Auditors Board (hereinafter called the Respondent) that was communicated to the Appellant on 16 June 2005. More
The appellant is charged with 5 counts of theft from motor vehicle allegations which he is alleged to have committed with 3 others two of whom are still at large.
Appellant was placed on remand on the 9th July 2021 together with one Desire Chirume as accused 2. Broadly the modus operandi in all the 5 counts is the same. Appellant and his co-accused are alleged to have broken into complainants’ motor vehicles after smashing door window glasses in order to access property inside the motor vehicle which generally were laptop, mobile phones etc. More
The appellant was tried and convicted of the offence of contravening s 52 (2) of the Road Traffic Act, [Chapter 13:11] upon his conviction the appellant was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and had his driver’s licence endorsed More
: The plaintiff’s claim against the defendant is for the delivery of three motor vehicles the particulars whereof are detailed in the summons and declaration as follows: Mazda T3500 Reg. No. AAJ 1472, Chassis No. WEL46MY 01050; Mazda T3500 Reg No. ACM 1956, Chassis No. El49MY03348; Mazda T3500 Reg No. ABP 0780. The plaintiff’s case, as pleaded, is that the three motor vehicles were placed under the custody of the defendant for parking at the latter’s place of residence at a time that there was in existence an employer/employee relationship between the parties. The plaintiff pleaded that the defendant’s contract... More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award handed down on 7 March 2014, in terms of which the dismissal of the respondent from the employment of the appellant was held to be unlawful.
The background to the matter is that the Respondent was employed by the Appellant as a security guard. On 7 October 2012, he was on duty at the Kingdom Bank 1st Street ATM machine, when the machine was tampered with by one of the customers. The incident led to the Respondent facing charges of gross incompetence, inefficiency and negligence, in terms of the National Employment Council... More
On the 24th of November 2021, 3rd respondent’s enforcement team based at Beitbridge or routine compliance checks intercepted a foreign registered truck towing taut liner interlink trailers bearing registration numbers JJ287H GP/KK3579MP; KK5571MP in a tunnel towards an imports scanner. Upon request, the driver presented Bill of Entry number C84043 dated 27 November 2021 indicating that the truck was carrying diapers. The truck was referred for scanning to confirm the goods reflected on the declaration. Before the image analyst could start scanning, the driver jumped out of the truck and sped off towards the last check point. The driver abandoned... More
This case represents a very sad state of affairs on the part of the Minister as the acquiring authority of land in this country and the other ancillary Government departments in land allocation and distribution. They are not able to speak with one voice and they have been sending conflicting signals to the occupiers of Tavydale Farm. This approach does not bring transparency to the whole land regime in this country. More
The two applicants (Dean Benjamin and Muzaffar Khan) are seeking an order particularized on the draft along the following format:
“IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1. The 2nd and 3rd Respondents are hereby ordered to restore possession of the Volvo A 30 D Dump Truck to the Applicants within 48 hours of being served with this order.
2. Failing compliance with the order in (1) above, the 1st Respondent is hereby ordered to enforce the order in (1) above and restore possession of the Volvo A 30 D Dump Truck to the Applicants, forthwith.
3. The Respondents jointly and severally one... More
1. This is an opposed application for quantification of damages in lieu of reinstatement. It is made after the employer has not reinstated the employee and there were no negotiations to settle the matter. It is one of those many cases where parties do not want to co-operate and resolve their issues out of court. More
The parties in this matter entered into marriage in terms of the then Marriage Act, [Cap 37] (now Cap 5: 11) on 9 July 1988. Some twenty years later, on 3 December, 2008 the defendant instituted this divorce action, citing various reasons which she claims indicate that their marriage has irretrievably broken down. More
