This is an application for confirmation of the provisional order granted on 28 February 2020. The interim relief which was granted in that provisional order was for stay of execution of the judgment granted in favour of the respondents in Case No. HC 2954/18 pending the return date. The final order sought is for a declaration that the payment of RTGS$452 000.00 by the applicant fully discharged the applicant’s obligations under the judgment in HC 2954/18 and for an order for the release of any property which might or could have been attached in execution of that judgment. Applicants also... More
KABASA J: This is an application for bail pending trial. I handed down an ex tempore judgment after the matter was argued. I have decided to provide written reasons although such have not been requested for.
The applicant who is aged 40 is facing one count of armed robbery as defined in section 126 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23 and a second count of attempted murder as defined in section 47 as read with section 189 of the same Act. More
DUBE-BANDA J: This is an application for bail pending trial. Applicant is charged with the crime of robberyas defined in section 126 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. It being alleged that on the 14 June 2021, at about 23 45 hours, the applicant in the company two persons still at large approached the complainant who had parked his motor vehicle a Toyota Hilux at Total Garage, in Bulawayo. Applicant and his accomplices are said to have produced a rifle and a pistol which they used to threaten the complainant before pulling him out of the... More
This application is brought in terms of section 3(1) (a) of the Administrative Justice Act [Chapter 10:28] and it seeks a review and the concomitant setting aside of respondent’s decision to withdraw applicants’ offer letter in respect of Remainder of Patterson Farm which is 622.9125 hectares in extent (the farm). It also seeks the setting aside of the respondent’s directive for the applicants to cease occupation and use of the farm. More
The appellants were arraigned before the Magistrates Court facing allegations of contravening s 368(1) as read with 368(4) of the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05] prospecting for Minerals without a permit or a licence. Both appellants were convicted on their own pleas of guilty and sentenced to the mandatory sentence of 2 years imprisonment each as there were no special circumstances. Irked by the conviction the appellants lodged the present appeal which the respondent is not opposed . More
On 26 January 2017, this Court in SC 1/17, adjudicating over the parties’ dispute,remitted the matter to the Labour Court (the court a quo)for a determination ofthe following issues:
“To determine, on the basis of specific provisions of the Works Council Agreement concluded in September 2010 and the minutes accompanying the Agreement, and having regard to sworn evidence from the signatories to the agreement, whether or not the salaries and benefits stipulated in that agreement were intended to apply to the appellants.” More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Magistrates Court which granted the respondent’s claim for appellant’s eviction from Stand 4733 Ushewokunze, Harare. Despite the appellant’s opposition to the eviction claim on the basis that this stand was allocated to his wife Pelagia Nyemba, the court a quo made a finding that the respondent who was the plaintiff in the matter was the rightful owner of the stand in question. It ordered the eviction of the appellant and all those claiming occupation through him. More
