This short judgment is intended to contextualize my order so that its rationality is appreciated when the main matter Case No. HC 112/19 is finally determined by the court should the applicant persist in it. More
On 20th December 2010 the Honourable P Shawatu made an arbitration award. In terms thereof he ordered Appellant to reinstate Respondents’ employment or alternatively to pay them damages for loss of employment. Appellant then appealed to this Court against the award. More
This an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in terms of section 92 F (2) of the Labour Act, (Chapter 28:01) and Rule 43 of the Labour Court Rules, 2017. This Court rendered judgment in Case Number LC/H/364/24 on 6 August 2024. Applicant is dissatisfied with the decision More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award. Respondent is an employee of the appellant. He is currently employed as an assistant accountant having been initially engaged as a creditors clerk in July 1997. More
This matter was initially set down on the Supreme Court roll as an appeal matter. At the hearing of the appeal, the respondent submitted that the matter raised a constitutional issue of whether the law of parate executie violates the access to the courts provision, s 69(3) of the current Constitution of Zimbabwe (“the Constitution”). Mr Matinenga applied for a referral to the Constitutional Court for the determination of that issue. More
This is an application for an interdict wherein the applicant seeks the following relief:
“Interim relief granted
It be and is hereby ordered that:
1. Pending the finalisation of this matter, 2nd respondent be and is hereby prohibited from commencing or continuing safari operations or hunting activities and any activities associated there with, in the Tsholotsho North Hunting Concession Area. More
The first, second and third applicants approached this court on an urgent basis seeking an order for the stay of execution of judgment. More particularly, the applicants’ provisional order is as follows:
“TERMS OF FINAL ORDER
That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a Final Order should not be made as set out in the Interim Relief granted hereunder;
1. That the Respondents be and are hereby ordered and directed to stay the execution of Applicants’ movable and immovable properties, pending the outcome of the Application for Rescission of Judgment instituted by Applicants against 1st Respondent.
2. The... More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award which was handed down in default of the appellant.
The arbitrator observed in his award that the respondent did not attend the hearing in spite of having been duly notified to do so and that no reasons for non attendance were communicated.
The respondent, who had been employed by the appellant as a general hand, had been dismissed on 21 May 2013 on allegations of using abusive language and absenteeism. Upon appeal to the Local Joint Committee, the respondent had been reinstated without loss of salary and benefits. Aggrieved, the appellant lodged... More
Tinashe Mugabe, through the applicant, has commanded attention in the recent past. His name has been synonymous with paternity results from DNA testing. Accounts or videos of couples in dispute or doubt about the parentage of some offspring have been posted in the media. DNA results from some paternity tests would invariably put to rest any such disputes or doubts. Docudramas, commentaries, sketches, jokes, anecdotes and the like have been made about Tinashe Mugabe’s activities, invariably generating much controversy and occasionally ruffling some feathers. The respondents stopped him. They first suspended his operations and then went on to cancel the... More
This is an application for summary judgment. The applicant filed summons for the payment of USD$50 000 being money advanced to the respondents insolidum as applicant’s capital contribution towards a joint venture that was to be formed by the parties. On the principal amount, applicant also claims interest at the prescribed rate from date of institution of proceedings to date of final payment. More
Appellant was employed by Respondent as the Head of Client Services. She was employed with effect from 3rd January 2012 until 13th December 2013 when she was served with a letter of instant dismissal. Following a challenge to that initial dismissal through her lawyers’ correspondence, Respondent withdrew the dismissal by a letter of the 20th December 2013. She was invited back to work effective from 6th January 2014. Upon her return she was served with a letter of suspension and was charged of the misconduct of “any act of conduct or omission inconsistent with the fulfillment of the employee’s contract... More
The appellant in this matter was employed by the respondent.
She was charged in terms of the National Code of Conduct SI 15/2006 under section 4 (a) thereof. The charge was
“any act or conduct or any omission inconsistent with the fulfillment of the express and implied conditions of her contract.”
The factual allegations which led to the dispute between the parties is briefly that on or about 31 October 2015, the appellant brought some meat and other food stuffs into the work premises. She proceeded to store the same in a refrigerator at the work place. More
This is an appeal against the Disciplinary Authority’s approval of a guilty verdict and penalty as recommended by the Disciplinary Committee.
- Appellant was in Respondent’s employ as a Principal Immigration Officer. She was based at the Harare International Airport.
- On the 21st February, 2015 Appellant was on duty on the arrivals side, clearing passengers who had alighted from Fastjet Airlines coming from Tanzania as well as passengers from Johannesburg who had alighted from Air Zimbabwe flight.
- During the clearing process Appellant cleared a passenger who was travelling on a Mozambican passport, bearing the name Valentine Takang.
-... More
The applicant, a group of seventeen (17) Zimbabwean women all of whom are in the diaspora, applies for a mandamus. It moves me to:
i) prohibit the respondent from transferring or allocating any portion of the Remainder of Subdivision E of Douglousdale, Bulawayo (“the property”) which is 38, 8495 hectares in extent to any person who has not contributed to the purchase of the same;
ii) compel the respondent to furnish to it, through its legal practitioners of record, the list of all persons who contributed towards the purchase of the property;
iii) compel the respondent to notify it, through... More
The applicant in this case seeks an order interdicting and prohibiting the first and the second respondents from proceeding into the sale in execution of the assets laid under seizure and attachment on 30 April 2009 pursuant to the enforcement of a writ of Execution against property issued by this Court on 2 August 2006. More
