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This is an application to interdict the first respondent from building and erecting structures on the applicants’ property commonly known as Stand Number 2745 Zizalisari, Mount Pleasant Heights, Harare. More

MOYO J: This is an urgent chamber application wherein the applicant seeks the following interim relief: 1. The respondent teachers’ unions together with their members who are teachers be and are hereby interdicted from boycotting classes until the return date when this matter will be finalized. 2. All the 1st to 5th respondents’ members who are teachers be and are hereby ordered to report for duty consistently within 48 hours of the granting of this order. 3. In the event that 1st to 5th respondents members refuse to or fail to comply with the order in paragraphs 1 and 2... More

The application before this court is one for rescission of default judgment. The salient facts are as follows: The first and second applicants are directors of a company named Plastech Design (Pvt) Ltd. The respondent herein successfully sued Plastech Design (Pvt) Ltd for a debt due to the respondent in case number HC 13679/12. The debt was for an amount of US$51 140.67. The respondent executed against Plastech Designs (Pvt) Ltd but they failed to recover the judgment debt. The respondent then sued the 1st and 2nd Applicants in their personal capacity for the US$ 51 140.67 owed to the... More

SERE (PRIVATE) LIMITED VERSUS HIPPO VALLEY ESTATES LIMITED AND ERNEST & ASHTON HC 8001/03 2. HIPPO VALLEY ESTATES LIMITED VERSUS CHIWENGA ESTATES (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 4 OTHERS HC 5830/03 AND BON ESPOIR (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND O MATAMBA HC 6318/03 AND BON ESPOIR (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND CCHITIMA HC 5796/03 3. TRIANGLE LIMITED AND HIPPO VALLEY ESTATES LIMITED VERSUS ER HARRISON AND 4 OTHERS HC 10028/03 AND 4. HIPPO VALLEY ESTATES LIMITED VERSUS CHIREDZI NOMINEES (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 22 OTHERS HC 5831/03 AND CHIREDZI RANCHING CO. (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 8 OTHERS HC 5821/03 AND CHIREDZI RANCHING COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 2 OTHERS HC 6311/03 AND DENHARII (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 4 OTHERS HC 5804/03 AND LYNDHURST ESTATE (PRIVATE LIMITED AND 2 OTHERS HC 6321/03 AND L.T. ENGELS (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND 2 OTHERS HC 6320/03 AND RIO ENTERPRISES & 5 OTHERS HC 5811/03 AND MARATHAN ESTATES (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 3 OTHERS HC 5806/03 AND MAPANZA ESTATES (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 32 OTHERS HC 5823/03 AND KWAINGWE FARMS (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND 10 OTHERS HC 5824/03 AND ESPERANCE ESTATE LIMITED AND PATRICK M SIBANDA HC 5805/03 AND FANTAISE FARMS (PRIVATE) LIMITED & 18 OTHERS HC 5794/03 (2006-05-24)
The applicant Hippo Valley Estates Limited is a Sugar Cane Miller obliged by law to accept sugar cane from growers for milling at its mills. The first respondent in almost all the cases owned farms or settlements on which the rest of the respondents claimed to have been resettled by the government. The respondents delivered sugar cane to applicant for milling. After having accepted the sugar cane for milling the applicant was faced with two competing claims; from the 1st respondents and from the rest of the respondents. It was in these circumstances that the applicant instituted these interpleader proceedings More

This is an appeal against the judgement of the High Court in Case No. HC 5569/17 in which the High Court dismissed an urgent chamber application seeking the stay of the appellant’s detention, which was ordered by the Commissioner -General of Police (the second respondent), pending the finalisation of an application for review by the High Court of the proceedings before the single trial officer (the first respondent). More

In this opposed application for review, applicant is seeking an order for the setting aside of both the conviction and sentence imposed on him by the respondents, the permanent stay of the prosecution of his offence in violation of paragraph 34 of the schedule to the Police Act [Chapter11:08], and cost of suit. More

This is an application for a declaratur. The applicants want this Honourable Court to make a declaration that the refusal or failure to reinstate the applicants to the Police Service by the respondents be and is hereby declared to be unlawful, wrongful, and that the respondents be ordered to pay costs of suit on a punitive scale. More

The applicant, former member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), is seeking an order to be reinstated into the ZRP and for payment of costs on the attorney-client scale. The application is opposed by the respondents. More

Plaintiff, an incola, issued summons in April 2004 against first and second defendants both peregrine, claiming damages arising out of a motor vehicle collision that occurred in Harare on 8 February 2004. In early 2006 the defendants raised special plea to the jurisdiction of the court. That special plea was upheld. On April 2006 plaintiff made a chamber application in terms of which on 10 October 2006, this court issued an order attaching certain of second defendant’s mechanical horses and trailers specified in the order. On 1 December 2006, plaintiff withdrew the proceedings in HC 4819/04 and filed the present... More

On 17 April 2019 the High Court handed down a judgment in which it issued the following order: - 1. The order of this Court granted on 12 December 2018 under Case No. HC 7399/18 acquitting the applicants namely Sesedzai Munobvanei and Mhondiwa Nyamande under CRB MRWP 944-5/18 at the close of the State case was made in error and is hereby rescinded. 2. For the avoidance of doubt, the trial magistrate shall proceed with the trial forthwith by putting the applicants on their defence as already ordered by this Court under Case No HH748/18 3. This judgment shall be... More

On the 11th March 2016 the applicant filed in this court, an application for condonation of late noting of his application for rescission. The respondent opposed the application. I will deal with the application under the subtitles “Delay” and “Prospects”. More

The first applicant is a member of the House of Assembly for Mbizo Constituency in Kwe Kwe. The second applicant is also a member of the House of Assembly for the Redcliff Constituency. Both applicants were arrested on the 18th January 2019 on allegations of subverting a constitutional Government as defined in section 22 (b) as read with section 22 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23). In the alternative the applicants are charged with inciting public violence in contravention of section 187 (1) as read with section 36 (1) of the Criminal Code. The applicants... More

The first to the sixth applicants inclusive were elected as Honourable Members of the National Assembly and therefore of the Parliament of Zimbabwe in the harmonized elections held in July, 2018. More

The brief history of this matter is that the applicant was charged with gross negligence and proven negligence resulting in fuel theft from side tanks on H 89. It was alleged that on 6 November the applicant whilst at (NOIC) National Oil Company of Zimbabwe had fuel stolen out of his side tanks. Extra fuel had to be sent out to him so that H 89 could load. There was no breaking of the locks or any indication of theft yet there was no fuel in the side tanks and the metre was reading empty. The applicant appeared before the... More

This matter came to this court as an urgent chamber application. In the papers filed with this court, applicant sought a final order drawn in the following terms: 1. That 1st respondent and all those claiming occupation through him shall vacate the applicant’s premises known as Number 1, Solusi Adventist High School within 48 hours of the granting of this order. 2. Failing paragraph (1) above, the Deputy Sheriff, Bulawayo or his lawful assistants are authorised and directed at 1st respondents own expense, to evict the 1st respondent and all those claiming through him, from Solusi Adventist High School. 3.... More