The applicant approached the court with an application for bail pending review of proceedings which took place on 11 April 2013 at Kadoma magistrate court. The back ground to the application being that on 11 April 2013 the applicant appeared before Kadoma magistrate on a charge of contravening of s 3 (1) (a) of the Domestic Violence Act [Cap 5:16]. The applicant pleaded guilty to the charge, was convicted and sentenced to 16 months imprisonment of which 6 months imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour. The applicant was aggrieved and he noted an... More
By a letter dated the 12th December 2011 Appellant was notified of a disciplinary hearing where he was to answer a charge of gross negligence or wrongful act or omission that causes loss to the employer, accident, injury, or death at work.
This was in terms of schedule 4 sub clause 16 of The Collective Bargaining Agreement: Chemical and Fertilizers Manufacturing Industry S.I. 31 of 2011(THE CODE) More
This matter had been initially set down in terms of rule 19(3) (a) of this court’s rules. Respondent had not filed heads of argument. Appellant filed his heads of argument on 27 August 2012. Respondent only filed its heads of argument on 27 March 2013. Appellant had not served his heads of argument upon the Respondent. Respondent is according not barred. Both parties consented to arguing the matter on the merits and I proceeded to hear their submissions on the merits. More
The appellant was arraigned before the Regional Magistrate at Harare on a charge of rape as defined in section 65(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Cap 9:23]. He pleaded not guilty but was convicted after a trial. He was thereupon sentenced to 10 years imprisonment of which 5 years imprisonment was suspended for 5 years on condition of future good conduct. More
This is an application for leave to execute the judgment of KARWI J issued on 21 March 2012 in favour of the applicant against the 3 respondents jointly and severally for payment of $6264-75 being costs of repairing a commuter omnibus and $17 840-00 being damages for loss of income together with interest on both sums at the prescribed rate from the date of summons to date of payment and costs of suit. More
This is an opposed application which I ultimately dealt with as an unopposed application for the reasons I shall herein later outline.
The applicants seek an order in the following terms:-
“IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1. The Agreement of Sale entered into between Oliver Chitsinde purportedly acting on behalf of the applicants and the Government of Zimbabwe on 21 July 2007 be and is hereby declared null and void (sic)
2. The first respondent and or the Government of Zimbabwe and all those calling through them shall forthwith vacate Lot 5 of GA Helensvale, failing which the Deputy Sheriff with... More
