This is an application for review in which the applicant seeks the following relief:
“1. The findings of the board of inquiry which was held on the 16th of February 2017 be and is hereby declared null and void.
2. The respondents are ordered to reinstate the applicant back into the Police Service forthwith with full benefits and privileges as from the 7th of November 2017 up to date.
3. The respondents are ordered to pay costs of suit.” More
At the hearing of these matters Mr L. Musika applied to have the two cases consolidated since the facts, issues and legal principles to be argued are the same. Mr Ndou for the applicants agreed and both cases were consolidated. The result is that I will deliver one judgment instead of two.
The background in respect of each case is as follows:
1. Ex-Sergeant Mafenya
Both parties have not divulged what caused the applicants’ discharge by the 1st respondent. Be that as it may, on 7 November 2016, applicant received a radio communication from the 1st respondent to the effect... More
This is a court application for a dclaratur wherein applicants seek the following relief:
“1. The discharge of the applicants from the Police Service by the respondents be and is hereby declared unlawful and wrongful.
2. The respondents are ordered to reinstate the applicants into the Police Service forthwith.
3. The respondents are ordered to pay costs of suit on a client attorney scale”.
The applicants’ case is based on the following facts:
On the 26th day of July 2016 they were discharged from the Police Service by the 1st respondent. Both appealed against the dismissal to the 2nd respondent... More
On 7 June 2019 the appellant was arraigned at Mutare Magistrates Court facing a charge of “unlawful dealing in or possession of precious stones” in contravention of s 3 (1) of the Precious Stones Act [Chapter 21:06]. The state alleged that on 25 December 2018 and at Sakubva Bus Terminus, Birchnough – Mutare Road, the appellant and one Kumbirai Karani, unlawfully dealt in or possessed 5 pieces of diamonds weighing 14, 80 carats and valued at $1 267-17 without being exempted in terms of the said Act. At the close of the state case Kumbirai Karani was discharged, the appellant... More
The first applicant is a trust. It is better known by its operating name Veritas. It is active in the field of human rights, the promotion of rule of law and the promotion of constitutionalism in Zimbabwe. The second and third applicants are two of its trustees. Both are citizens of Zimbabwe and registered voters. More
On 3 April 2006 the appellant was found guilty of one count of contravening s 3(1)(a)(ii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act [Chapter 9:16] (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) by the Magistrates Court. On 9 February 2013, the High Court confirmed the conviction and found that there was no appeal against sentence before it. The appellant now appeals to this Court against both conviction and sentence. More
Sometime in January 2019, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions called for a nationwide stay away principally as a reaction against fuel price increases. It turned out that the events did not result in a stay away but blocking of major public roads, spikes, nails, boulders, tree trunks, tyres, drums and scrap metals were piled on the roads and in some instances human shield was used to thwart both human and automobile traffic. The applicant participated in this “stay away” and the end product of all this activity was an enormous number of people were arrested by the police, indeed... More
