The applicants were offered stand No. 1211 Medium Density, Woodbroke North Bindura by the respondent on 17 November 2011. The full purchase price on the offer letter was in the sum of USD1500.00 which applicants paid in full upon acceptance of the offer. The respondent proceeded to allocate the stand to the applicants and deferred the signing of the Agreement of sale to a later and unspecified date pending servicing of the stand. The respondent has decided to ignore and distance itself from the offer and has issued the applicants with an agreement of sale in respect of the same... More
Applicant is facing allegations of contravening section 157 (1) (c) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act (Chapter 9:23). It is alleged by the state that on the 2nd of September 2020 and at around 1200 hours detectives from Criminal Investigations Department, Drugs and Narcotics, Bulawayo, carried out a raid at appellant’s residence at 214 Harrisvale, Bulawayo. Detectives searched the yard and discovered 51 dagga plants in a garden. The plants measured between 15 to 150 cm in length. Appellant was granted bail on his initial appearance. The trial commenced and at the close of the state case appellant... More
This is an application for review of the events that eventually led to the applicants’ retirement/dismissal from employment. It is alleged that the Town Clerk acted ultra vires his mandate in that he made the decision meromotu in the absence of a Council Resolution to retire the first and 2nd Applicants. It has also been submitted to the court that the 3rd and 4th Applicants’ offices have been abolished by the Respondent and thus abolition amounts to a defacto retrenchment exercise. The Applicants have told the court that this is a unilateral variation of the employment contract. More
The two applicants seek to reverse the sale of a property in a deceased estate. The property is known as 16286 Unit M, Seke, Chitungwiza and it belonged to the estate of the late David Chirikure Mukarati who was their father. They also seek that that the agreement of sale of that property entered into by the executor Noreen Chikaka, being the second respondent herein, with the purchaser being Anderson Remuyanga who is the 4th respondent herein, be declared null and void. They also want title of the property to be resuscitated in the name of the late David Chirikure... More
: This matter is an application for bail pending appeal. Before the Regional Court applicant was the first accused of the three accused in that matter. They faced four counts of rape as defined in Section 65 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23. The allegations were that the accused person’s raped female minors aged four, eight and 11 years old More
This is an application to interdict the first respondent from transferring a certain piece of property namely number 8 Prices Road, Emerald Hill Harare to the second respondent, pending resolution of the rights of the applicant in the property. Applicant also sought reversal of the sale and that he be given the right to purchase the property. More
The first applicant was elected as the Executive Mayor of the second respondent on 11 March 2002. On 29 December 2005, he received a letter from the first respondent suspending him from duty upon certain specific grounds that were detailed in the letter. It was also indicated in the letter that the suspension would be without salary and benefits and accordingly, the first applicant was to surrender all council property in his possession and vacate council premises to allow investigations into the allegations leveled against him to proceed. More
This is an urgent chamber application for an order interdicting the respondents from interfering with the applicant’s mining rights and operations at Somerset 16 Mine registered under certificate of registration number 24107 Sherwood, Kwekwe and for the respondents to forthwith vacate the said mine and give vacant possession thereto to the applicant. The other relief sought is for the fifth respondent to be ordered not to purchase or pay for any gold mined from Somerset 792, Somerset 791, Somerset 16 and Good Morning Mine, that is delivered to it by the first respondent or any person acting on behalf of... More
On 5 August 2014 one Gert Willem Van Der Linde (“Gert”) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Van Der Linden (“Martha”), entered into a contract with the first respondent (“the respondent”), a charitable and not-for-profit trust, which is set up in accordance with the laws of Zimbabwe. The contract entitled Gert and Martha the right to occupy the respondent’s cottage number 28 which is at Athol Evans Complex, along Chiremba Road, in Cranborne area, Harare. More
On 03 February 2025 this court dismissed with costs an appeal that had been filed by the appellant employer in a labour dispute pitting the employer and the employee. The court indicated that full reasons for the order could be availed on request. The employer has made a request for such reasons. More
The application was filed in terms of section 4 of the Administrative Justice Act (Chapter 10:28). The 1st respondent is an administrative authority with powers exercised in terms of the Mines and Minerals Act (Chapter 21:05.).The order sought by the applicant is in the following terms:
“It is ordered that
1. 1st respondent’s letter dated 25 April 2019 and its directions therein, be and is hereby revoked, for failure to comply with proper Administrative Justice.
2. There be no order as to costs.”
It will be noted that the application did not seek any substantive relief against the respondents, save... More
The applicant (Mkwanda Taya) filed this present application for a declaratur seeking a relief in the following terms:-
“ 1. The transfer of Stand No. 3114 Gushungo Street, Ruwafrom the Applicant’s names to the 1st Respondent’s names and eventually into the 2nd Respondents’ names is declared unlawful and wrongful. More
1. This is a court application for condonation for the late filing of an application for review. The applicant seeks an order couched in the following terms:
i. That the application for condonation be and is hereby granted.
ii. That applicant is granted leave to file its application for review within ten (10) days from the granting of this order.
iii. Costs of suit to be paid by the party who opposed this application on a legal practitioner and client scale. More
This is a matter where plaintiff had issued summons against the defendant. The defendant defended the proceedings and filed a counter claim to the plaintiff’s claim.
In the counter-claim the defendant claims the following:
“(a) that the plaintiff be ejected from Calcite Southern Mine, Inyathi Matabeleland North.
(b) The plaintiff pays costs of suit.”
The basis of the defendant’s counter-claim is that plaintiffs’ mining claim was cancelled but that plaintiff continues to occupy Calcite South Mine and continues to mine without a valid permit yet defendant acquired the mining claims known as Calcite 22 to 28 on the 7th of... More
