This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) delivered at Harare on 15 January 2020 under judgment number HH 26/20. At the conclusion of argument on 21 July 2020 the court issued the following order with reasons to follow:
“IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1) The appeal succeeds to the extent that the relief granted by the court a quo is set aside and substituted with the following:
(a) Judgment is granted in the sum equivalent to US$58 500 in RTGS calculated at the prevailing interbank rate.
(b) Interest on the said amount in... More
The background to the dispute is decipherable from the applicant’s founding affidavit. It is as follows. The second respondent herein instituted action proceedings against the applicant under HC 11725/16 in terms of which the second respondent, as the plaintiff therein claimed against the applicant, as defendant in those proceedings, the sum of US$58 500 being the balance due in respect of some 1 500 army rucksack bags manufactured and delivered to the applicant herein at the applicant’s instance. The second respondent also claimed interest on the said amount plus costs of suits on a legal practitioner and client scale. At... More
The applicant has approached this court seeking a declaratur to the effect that she be paid what is owed to her by her former employer, the respondent, in United States Dollars. She also seeks that the court declares her employers’ conduct of seeking to pay her dues in Zimbabwean dollars unlawful. The application is opposed.
The facts of this matter are clearly straight forward and are not in contention. The applicant herein was formerly employed by the respondent on a contract basis as the Executive Director. Upon the termination of her employment contract she sought payment of her salary arrears... More
This is an application for condonation for late filing of an application for review and extension of time within which to file an application for review. It is opposed. More
Before me were three matters divided into Volume I, Volume II AND Volume III.
Volume I is a court application under HC 5594/21 pitting MUGODHI APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH and DAVISON MANGOMA and 35 other named respondents. The application is for an interdict to bar respondents from entering into any of the first applicant’s premises or from interfering in any manner with its congregants, members, leaders, activities programmes and gatherings of its members. More
1. This is an application for leave to appeal out of time and to prosecute the appeal in person. The applicant is dissatisfied with his conviction on two counts of rape as defined in s 65 of the Criminal Law Code. He also is aggrieved by the sentence of 15 years imprisonment imposed on him in respect of each count. Of the total 30 years imprisonment the trial Court suspended 5 years imprisonment for 5 years on the usual conditions of good behaviour. More
The applicant and two other co-accused persons stand charged with the murder of one Sipho Million Mncube. The crime was allegedly committed on 12 March 2020. As part of his investigations, the second respondent who happens to be the investigating officer, approached the third respondent for an order to compel the applicant to produce samples of his blood for comparison with samples of blood on some recovered blood stained clothes. The applicant withheld his consent to the extraction of his blood samples for that purpose.It is the warrant of search and seizure that was issued by the third respondent on... More
