The background to this matter is as follows: - The applicant entered into an agreement of sale with the first respondent in respect of an immovable property being an undivided 3.14690411% share being share number 18 in certain piece of land situate in the district of Salisbury called stand 1282 Salisbury township measuring 892 square metres held under Deed of Transfer Number 2538/2017. The agreement was signed by the applicant on 22 August 2017 and by the first respondent on 27 August 2017. More
This was an application for registration of an Arbitral Award handed down by the Arbitrator Mr D.A Whatman on 15 January, 2018. This was in respect of case No. HC 1186/18 More
This is an appeal against the decision of the High Court dismissing with costs an application filed by the appellant for the upward review of the amount of maintenance payable by the respondent in respect of the appellant and two minor children of the former matrimonial union. More
Appellant was convicted of one count of indecent assault as defined in s 67 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, [Chapter 9:23] and another of rape as defined in s 65 of the same Act. He was sentenced to one year in respect of the indecent assault charge and seventeen years in respect of the rape charge. Of the 17 years imprisonment 4 years was suspended for five years on the usual conditions of future good behavior. The one year in respect of the indecent assault charge was ordered to run concurrently with the sentence in respect of... More
This is chamber application by the applicants seeking the dismissal of the court application under case No. HC 8289/16 filed by the respondent against the applicants. The chamber application is brought in terms of r 236 (4) (b) of the Rules of the High Court which reads;
“(4) Where the applicant has filed an answering affidavit in response to the respondent’s opposing affidavit but has not, within a month thereafter, set the matter down for hearing, the respondent, on notice to the applicant, may either—
(a) set the matter down for hearing in terms of r 223; or
(b) make... More
The facts in this matter are common cause. The appellant instituted proceedings in the magistrate court sitting at Chiredzi for the eviction of the respondents and all those claiming occupation through them from leased premises situated at Lot 11 A and Lot 12 A of Triangle Ranch Triangle Township, Triangle.
The first respondent is a company duly registered in terms of the laws of Zimbabwe. It is presently under Judicial Management. The 2nd to 32nd respondents are either farmer or current employees of the 1st respondent who occupy separate dwellings situated on the leased premises described above and are in... More
This is an application for rescission of a default judgment where the applicant prays for relief in the following terms:
“It is ordered that
1. The application be and is hereby granted.
2. The apparent delay in bringing an application for rescission of judgment in terms of the rules shall be condoned.
3. Default judgment granted by this court on 24 May 2017 in Case No. HC 1863/17 be and is hereby rescinded.
4. The respondent and its legal practitioners de bonis propris shall jointly and severally the one paying the other to be absolved pay the costs of this... More
