This is an application in which the applicant, Samuel Mugano seeks joinder to case Number HC 14134/12 of the first respondent, a registered Trust called Fintrac. It is a matter in which applicant (as defendant) is being sued by the second respondent ZFC, (as plaintiff) for a debt of US$58 034.45 for inputs received from it in the form of seed potato, fertilisers and chemicals some time on December 2011. Applicant is one of a group of 234 farmers called Bende Farmers, in Nyanga, who received these inputs from the second respondent. More
The matter was placed before me as an application for condonation for the late noting of an appeal against the determination of the Respondent’s final Appeal Authority. The application was opposed. After hearing arguments and upon consideration of the record of proceedings I handed down an order dismissing the application. I indicated that the reasons were to follow. I set out hereunder my reasons for the order More
This is an appeal by the Appellant Company against the decision of the General Engineering Committee (G.E.C) which had set aside the Respondent’s (“the employee’s”) dismissal on charges of stealing paint from his workplace. More
The appellant appealed against the decision of a Magistrate who ordered her to return the cattle, goats and money which had been attached in execution to satisfy a judgment which had been granted in her favour by the Chief’s court. The respondent, who was the appellant in the Magistrate’s court, opposes the appellant’s appeal. More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award ordering Appellant to pay bush allowance to the Respondents’ for the period April 2009 to April 2010.
The brief facts are that the Respondents were employed by the Appellant on a 2 year fixed contract. The Appellant did not renew the contracts after the expiration of the two years. Aggrieved by such non-renewal of the contracts, the Respondents’ filed a complaint that their fixed contracts were unlawfully terminated and that they were not paid their full salaries during their employment period. The matter was subsequently referred for arbitration. More
: This matter was brought before me as an urgent application on 07 and 16 May 2013.
After hearing arguments on the matter I concluded that the urgency of the matter had not been fully established and I therefore declined to treat the matter as urgent and ordered the applicant to pay costs. More
Kojo Malcom Parris (“Parris”) intended to sell his house in Harare. He instructed an acquaintance, June Mossdorf, (“Mossdorf”) of Fox & Carney Estate Agents to market the immovable property for him. He was by that time resident in South Africa. Mossdorf found the plaintiffs with whom she negotiated and agreed on a possible sale. The plaintiffs paid a deposit to Mossdorf. When she asked Parris to instruct his lawyers to draw the necessary papers, he refused. She instructed his lawyers to proceed with the sale as she believed a binding contract of sale was in existence. The lawyers refused to... More
