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The applicant holds the right to occupy and use Subdivision 2 Wakefield in Chegutu measuring 280 hectares (the farm) through an offer letter issued to him by the respondent on 03 November 2018. 2. On 9 May 2022 he paid the total sum of ZWL$235 000 to the first respondent, through the Civil Division of the Attorney –General’s Office, to facilitate the registration, in his favour, of a 99 year lease over the farm in question. 3. The payment was the culmination of a process which had seen a surveyor- diagram, SGN 279/2014, being framed pursuant to the farm being... More

This is an application for condonation of the late noting of an application for review. Applicant seeks a review of the decision of the Master of the High Court to confirm the first and final liquidation and distribution account in the estate of the late ThembinkosiSibindi DRB 346/17 handed down at Bulawayo on 14 November 2014. The applicant avers that she was customarily married to the late ThembinkosiSibindi without knowledge that he was already married. That together they acquired stand No. 5 York Road Hillside in Bulawayo and that she personally contributed $23 000 USD being USD $15 000 for... More

This is an application filed by applicant in terms of s.196 of The Customs and Excise Act [Chapter 23:02] as well as ss 3 (1) and 4 (1) of the Administrative Justice Act [Chapter 10:28] where applicant seeks the following order: “IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT. 1. The decision made by the second respondent confirming the decision of forfeiture of motor vehicle namely Man 81.08 Rigid truck Registration Number AFH 5315, Chasis Number WMAH18ZZ07093662 be and is hereby set aside. 2. The respondent s are hereby ordered to release the Man 81.08 Rigid Truck Registration Number AFH 5315, Chasis Number... More

This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court handed down on 28 April 2021 under judgment HH 211/21 in which the court a quo confirmed the forfeiture of the appellant’s mining block registered under registration certificate number 18132, also known as Mirage 3 situate at Kwekwe Mining District of the Midlands. At the close of submissions we delivered an ex tempore judgment and allowed the appeal with costs. The parties have requested that they be furnished with written reasons for our judgment. More

This is an application for a declaratory order confirming Applicant’s sole beneficial ownership of Holfren Investments (Pvt) Ltd and Ontarium Investments (Pvt) Ltd. Further it is sought that this honourable court direct the Respondent to surrender all title deeds of immovable property registered in the name of Holfren Investments ( Pvt) Ltd and Ontarium Investments (Pvt) Ltd to the Applicant as per para 5 of appliant’s founding affidavit. The relief being sought as per the draft order is as follows:- More

This case demonstrates the need for contingent measures to be taken to curtail the abuse of the criminal justice system by litigants pending court operations becoming fully paperless. [2] On 10 August 2018, under HCA (COND) 65/18, MOYO J sitting at the High Court, Bulawayo dismissed First Gasura’s application for leave to appeal out of time in respect of the sentence imposed on him by the Regional Court sitting at Gokwe on 16 September 2016. [3] Gasura is the applicant in this matter. [4] Undeterred and having decided to shop for a different judicial officer, the applicant, on 16 September... More

On the return day of the rule nisi I confirmed the provisional order and dismissed the counter application indicating that the reasons will follow. These are the reasons. This is the return day of the rule nisi issued by this court on 10 May 2007 interdicting the two respondents (applicants in the counter-application hereinafter referred to as “respondents” or “first and second respondents”) from using applicant’s (respondent in the counter-application hereinafter referred to as “applicant”) two Mercedes Benz motor vehicles registration numbers AAA 3378 and AAA 4417 and directing the respondents to surrender to applicant the said motor vehicles immediately.... More