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
1. This is an application for bail pending trial. Applicants are charged with five counts. Count 1 is robbery as defined in section 126 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. It being alleged that on the 27 February 2022, at around 0115 hours the applicants and others who are not part of this application hatched a plan to rob complainant. They went to the complainant’s shop armed with machetes, axes and sjamboks, thereat they broke shop windows to gain entry whilst inside they assaulted the complainant with sjamboks and threatened to kill him with the machetes... More
This is an application for bail pending appeal. The brief background to the application has to be put into perspective. The applicant was arraigned before a Provincial Magistrate facing an offence of contravening s 45 (1) (b) of the Parks and Wildlife Act [Chapter 20:14] as read with s 128 of the said Act and further read with s 2 of the Parks and Wildlife (specially protected) regulations SI 72/2020. In that the applicant was in unlawful and intentional possession of Pangolin Scales weighing 1700 grams without a permit. The applicant pleaded guilty to the offence and was consequently found... More
The applicant in this matter is an association comprised by the tenants of various properties owned by the 13th respondent, Mnondo Properties (Pvt) Ltd (the Landlord). The 1st to the 11th respondents are partners within the firm of legal practitioners (the Firm) representing the respondents herein. The 12th respondent is the Rent Board (the Board). More
The plaintiff, a duly incorporated engineering company which is involved in inter alia the manufacture of fuel tanks, instituted summons action against the defendant, a bus company, for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on 8 November 2009 at the intersection of Mharapara and Seke Roads in Chitungwiza. More
The applicant seeks a declaratory order to the effect that she is the sole occupier of rural homestead in Nyamakosi village, Mutoko. Additionally, she seeks consequential relief to the effect that any visit by the first to the fifth respondents at the applicant’s rural homestead in Nyamakosi Village Mutoko without her permission in writing is unlawful. More
