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This is an application for upliftment of caveat number 421/2014 placed on certain piece of land situate in the District of Salisbury called stand 143 Northwood Township of Sumben measuring 4263 square metres held under Deed of Transfer registered number 5115/1999 and Deed of Transfer Registered Number 7783/2015 (“the property.”) The applicants also seek an order requiring the second respondent to transfer the property to them within the next 21 days failing which the Sheriff for Zimbabwe should do all such things as are necessary to effect the transfer. Finally, costs are sought against first respondent on a punitive scale. More

This is a chamber application for a provisional order, wherein the applicant seeks a temporary interdict restraining the 1st to 6th respondents from infringing upon its property rights. Reference to the respondents in this judgment will exclude the 7th and 8th respondent because the 8th respondent is an officer of this court mandated to execute its judgments who has no interest in the outcome of the matter and there is no order sought against the 8th respondent. More

On the 12th of March 2021, I discharged in an ex tempore judgment an application to confirm a provisional order sought by the applicants. I have been requested to give reasons and these are they. More

Plaintiff and first defendant entered into an unregistered customary union in 2009 and parted ways in 2019. In 2016 Smart Express (Private) Limited was formed (hereinafter referred to as a “bus company”) and it is common cause that the first defendant and his mother, Aruma Mkwamba are the two shareholders, each having (1) share. The bus company’s registered office is given as 13 Longmore Crescent, Palmerstone, Mutare. The bus company used to have 10 buses, but currently only six (6) are operational. During the period of the union two immovable properties were acquired, 13 Longmore Crescent, Palmerstone and 7594 Rhodesview,... More

This is an application for bail pending trial. Applicant is being charged with the crime of murder as defined in section 47 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. On the 2nd November 2020, applicant appeared at the Western Commonage Magistrate’s Court, Bulawayo, whereupon he was placed on remand and remanded in custody. The allegations from which the charge of murder arises are set out in the Police Form 242, a Request for Remand Form. It states that: - On the 29 October 2020, at number 15126 Cowdry Park, Bulawayo, applicant was drinking beer with Ben Sibanda... More

This is an urgent chamber application wherein the applicants seek an order in the following terms: “TERMS OF THE FINAL ORDER SOUGHT: That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms: 1. That the 1st to 3rdrespondents be and are hereby interdicted from asserting any rights in respect of Gazemba III, Registration no 25685 or any of applicants’’ mining claims unless they produce legal documents from the office of the 4threspondent or unless they are authorised by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. 2. That the 1st... More

This is a Court Application for dismissal of respondent’s action under case number HC 6448/18 made in terms of r 75(1) of the High Court Rules of 1971 coupled with a claim for a declaratory order on the ground that their claim is frivolous and vexatious. More