On the 7th September 2023 respondent’s Disciplinary Authority (DA) found appellant
guilty of misconduct. As penalty she was transferred from Zvishavane District Hospital to
Mberengwa District Hospital. Appellant then appealed her conviction and penalty to
respondent (Commission) who dismissed the appeal on 17th October 2023. Appellant then
appealed to this Court in terms of Section 52 of the Health Service Regulations. S.I. 117 of
2006. Respondent opposed the appeal. More
The plaintiff issued summons for compensation in the sum of US$25 000 for improvements on Stand number 3701, Cold Stream, Chinhoyi ‘the property’ after the death of Felix Chasi alternatively that, in the event the defendant fails to pay then the plaintiff buys off the defendant from the property and costs of suit. The claim is based on unjust enrichment. More
Most of the fact in this case appear common cause. They are as follows.
The appellant was employed as a clerk by the respondent council. She was responsible for receipting and banking funds on behalf of the respondent. In March 2000 a home seeker paid twenty thousand dollars towards the purchase of a house from council. The appellant received the money but she did not issue out a receipt. She did not bank the money but kept it in a council safe. The buyer one Charumbira, continuously asked for a receipt but she did not get one. However she was... More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Magistrate Court sitting at Chiredzi dismissing appellant’s application for rescission of a default judgment which was granted in 2009. More
The applicant in this matter was appointed in 2008 as a commissioner of the 2nd respondent, the Securities Commission of Zimbabwe (the Commission), by the 1st respondent, the Minister of Finance (the Minister). She seeks an order setting aside the decision of the Minister taken in May 2011 terminating her tenure as commissioner. Both respondents resist the application on the ground that the applicant’s removal from office was lawful under the governing enactment. More
Disputes arising from affairs of deceased estates are common and this is one of them. Wilfanos Gabriel Mashingaidze died intestate on 25 November 2013. He left behind, among other properties, a farm known as Glasalla (the farm) in Darwin district measuring 1105,9293 hectares. It is this farm which is now the centre of dispute with the plaintiff, Martha Wazili, (Martha) claiming half share of it. On the other hand the 4th defendant, Chengeto Mashingaidze (Chengeto) contests the claim and has asked the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim with costs. Chengeto has also in an earlier court application in case... More
This is a chamber application in terms of r 20 of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016 (“the Rules”) for an order for reinstatement of a matter deemed to have been abandoned and dismissed by the Registrar of the Constitutional Court (“the Registrar”). The matter had come to the Constitutional Court (“the Court”) by way of a referral in terms of s 175(4) of the Constitution. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court of Zimbabwe handed down on 14 June 2018 in HC 2606/17as HB 147/18 dismissing the appellant’s application for condonation and extension of time within which to apply for a review of a labour court judgment More
The applicant is a tenacious serial litigant in the Bulawayo Labour Court, High Court and in the Supreme Court. He is a disgruntled former employee of the first respondent, who has been fighting tooth and nail without success to have his labour case, which was struck off the roll by the second respondent in the Labour Court on 22 March 2015, reviewed by the High Court. More
2. The appellant is a former employee of the respondent, having been employed as the school Headmaster on 28 February 2020. The respondent is a private school in Harare.
3. The appellant was charged with misconduct as defined in s 4 (a) of the Labour (National Employment Code of Conduct) Regulations, SI 15 of 2006 (The Labour Regulations). He was facing allegations that he fraudulently allowed a student from Sandringham High School to participate in classes without paying any tuition fees to the school and without informing the respondent. More
Applicant settled an invoice for the first term 2024 tuition fees for his minor child at Goldridge Primary School in full at the prevailing Reserve Bank inter Bank rate on the date of payment. The 1st to 4th respondents have opposed the application on the basis that the application is fatally defective and further that tuition fees for the minor child have not been settled in full based on an alleged contract entered into between 1st and 2nd respondents and as such, application must fail. More
Applicant applied to this Court for the review of the termination of his employment contract by Respondents. The application was made in terms of Section 89 (1) 1 d of the Labour More
After about 35 years of marriage the plaintiff issued summons for divorce and ancillary issues in July 2014. The parties contracted a civil marriage on 28 August 1979. The defendant entered appearance to defend and subsequent pleadings thereto More
The plaintiff in this matter instituted proceedings against the defendants and prayed for the following;
“a) Payment of Special damages in the sum of US$10 000, (Ten Thousand United States Dollars) being legal costs incurred by the plaintiff in defending themselves as a result of a malicious and false accusation by the defendant that caused the arrest and subsequent trial of the plaintiffs.
b) Payment of the sum of US$90 000.00 (Ninety Thousand United States Dollars) being general damages for humiliation, loss of reputation and good name, and subsequent economic loss as a result of the defendant’s malicious and wrongful... More
