The plaintiff’s claim is for the eviction of the defendant from 7.5 Mile peg Simon Mazorodze Road, Waterfalls, Harare, payment of arrear rentals in the sum of US$31 500-00, holding over damages in the sum of $1 500-00, being monthly rentals from April 2015 to date of eviction, payment of arrear water bill in the sum of US$20 800-00 as of March 2015, payment of current water bill that shall be accruing from the date of issuing the summons to the date of eviction. More
On the 21st March 2007 this court granted an order by consent in HC6497/05 stating, inter alia, that: -
“1. Within 60 days of receipt of a valuation report issued by a valuator nominated by the second respondent, the applicant shall pay to the estate of the late Lovemore Mutandwa DR1135/05, 50% (fifty percent) of the assessed value of Stand 3693 Highfield (the property).
2. Within a further 10 days of the payment of the 50% share, the first respondent, failing which the Deputy Sheriff, shall sign such documents as may be necessary to pass transfer of the property to... More
For 31 years the plaintiff and the defendant lived together as husband and wife in an unregistered customary law union (“the union”). During the subsistence of the union the parties acquired a sizeable number of assets, both movable and immovable. The plaintiff said they pooled their resources and acquired those assets jointly. The defendant denied there was any such pooling of resources, and said that each of them acquired their own assets separately. He further said on the dissolution of the union the plaintiff took the bulk of such items as she herself had acquired. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court dated 18 January, 2018 which dismissed the appellant’s application for a declaratory order. The appellant had sought an order in the court a quo in the following terms:
“1. The property known as No 36 Marlborough Drive, was the matrimonial home between applicant and her deceased husband Samuel Zachary Dick Munangatire.
2. The property devolves (sic) onto the applicant as surviving spouse in terms of ss 3 and 3A of the Deceased Estates Succession Act, [Chapter 6:02].
a. ALTERNATIVELY to 1 and 2 above;
3. That the first... More
On the 26thDecember 1970, the applicant married the late Samuel Zachary Dick Munangatire(herein after referred to as Samuel) in terms of the civil marriage laws of the United Kingdom (UK). More
The plaintiff and defendant were married in terms of the Marriages Act [Cap 5:11] at Harare on the 16th January 1997. The marriage still subsists. The defendant is domiciled in Zimbabwe as he was born and bred in this country. Their marriage was blessed with two children who are still minors. The first child was born on 27 August 1997 and the second child on 27 July, 1999. More
Appellant was dismissed from Respondent’s employ. She noted an appeal with the Chief Executive against the findings of the Disciplinary Authority but her appeal was unsuccessful. More
This is an appeal against refusal of bail by the magistrate’s court.
Both appellants were arraigned before a magistrate sitting at Harare facing two counts of fraud as defined in s136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23] and were denied bail pending trial. Dissatisfied with that decision, they now appeal to this court. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court, (court a quo), Harare, which was handed down on 19 May 2023. The court dismissed the appellant’s application for review on the basis, among others, that the appellant’s complaints to the respondents related to ecclesiastical governance and doctrine, a circumstance that removed from it the jurisdiction to hear the matter. More
This is a court application for review in terms of section 26 and 27 of the High Court Act Chapter 7:06 as read with Order 33 of the then High Court Rules 1971 in which, at this point of the judgment, the court is called upon to decide on a number of preliminary points. More
This is an application for the upliftment of the bar operating against the applicant in HC 5817/15. The events leading up to the present application are set out in the founding affidavit filed on behalf of the applicant sworn to by Raymond Maxime Smithlock who deposed as follows: More
This is an opposed application wherein the applicant seeks the confirmation of a provisional order which was granted by MABHIKWA J on 7th November 2018. More
This is an opposed application for condonation and extension of time within which to note an appeal. The application is brought in terms of r 43 of the Supreme Court Rules 2018. More
