1. This is an application for bail pending appeal against conviction and sentence. The applicant was arraigned before the Magistrates’ Court sitting at Bulawayo. He was charged with the crime of culpable homicide as defined section 49(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 09:23]. It being alleged that on the 21st December 2020 along the Harare-Bulawayo road he drove a heavy motor vehicle negligently, in that he encroached into the path of oncoming traffic; failed to stop or act reasonable when an accident or collision seemed imminent; and failed to ascertain whether the road was clear before... More
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court handed down on 14 May 2021. In that judgment, the court a quo held that monetary assets in offshore accounts forming part of the matrimonial assets to be divided between the appellant and the first respondent, following their divorce did not constitute a foreign obligation. More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) delivered at Harare on 14 October 2020 under judgment number HH – 637/20. The appeal originates from a judgment of the Magistrates Court which upheld the respondent’s claim for eviction and holding over damages against the appellant. The appellant appealed to the court a quo without success. She now appeals to this Court for relief. More
The brief background to this matter is that, the applicant sued the respondent sometime in 2007 under HC 3314/07 for specific performance and transfer of a property known as Lot 5 of the remainder of Subdivision “A” of Lichfied of Wilksden Farm (hereinafter called “the property”). Alternatively, the applicant claimed damages for breach of contract. On 4 July, the parties entered into a deed of settlement which is marked Annexure “A” and appears on pages 6-7 of the record. This deed of settlement was made an order of this court under HC 5000/08B on 29 November 2012, and the said... More
: On 24 January 2022 a Court application for the registration of a Labour Court Order was filed in the matter between TakawiraMunyanyi, Amos Magoronga and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation under case No HC 436/2022. More
In their application,the applicants claim to have purchased immovable property,known as a certain piece of land situate in the District of Salisbury, called stand 346 Good Hope, Township of Subdivision B of Good Hope, measuring 4000 square meters, from one, Douglas Dodzo, in 2002. The second respondent, the executor of the estate, late Johanna Francisca Logan, had, on the 15th of August, 2000, sold the mentionedproperty on behalf of the estate, to Douglas Dodzo. Title did not pass from the late Johanna Francisca Logan’s name, into that of the purchaser, Dodzo, up to date.The property is still in the name... More
This matter commenced as a trial cause with the Plaintiff issuing summons against the 1st to 4th defendants. It is common cause that the 1st defendant is a legal persona registered as a co-operative society under the Co-operative Societies Act [Chapter 24:05].The plaintiff averred that she joined to be a member of the 1st defendant (hereinafter referred to as “Ngungunyana”) sometime in 2006. She added that she was allocated Stand No. 14473 Budiriro, Harare, by Ngungunyana. The plaintiff submitted that on 13 February 2019, she was advised that her premises on the aforesaid stand was being demolished. In her declaration,... More
