On the 17th of November, 2022, I granted an ex tempore judgment in in this contested application for review, in favor of the applicants after hearing arguments from the parties. These are the reasons for judgement following a request by the respondents through the Registrar of the High court. An unopposed application for the condonation of late filing of heads and upliftment of bar by the respondents was successfully granted by this court. More
Lying at the heart of this dispute in the authenticity (and therefore validity) of a will purportedly left by the late Iddah Sharai Govereh (the deceased). The date of her demise is not apparent from the papers filed of record as neither party alluded to the same. More
This is an urgent application wherein applicant at the hearing of the matter, raised a point in limine to the effect that the 2nd respondent’s papers should be expunged from the court record and the matter be dealt with as unopposed because the notice of opposition failed to comply with Rule 58 (2) (c) where it is provided that, “Every written application and notice of opposition shall:- Give an address for service which shall be within a radius of ten kilometres from the registry in which the document is filed.” More
In this urgent chamber application the applicants seek the following provisional order:-
“TERMS OF THE FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
That you show cause to this Honourable Court, if any, why a final order should not be made in the following terms:-
1. The mining certificate of registration number 37266 issued in favour of first respondent and the said certificate’s predecessors and successors be and are hereby declared to be null and void ab initio.
2. Fourth, fifth and sixth respondents, their agents, appointees or any persons acting in their place and stead shall not issue any mining licence, prospecting licence, permit... More
This is an appeal against the decision by the respondent’s appeals tribunal which upheld the decision to find the appellant guilty of acts of misconduct and to dismiss him from employment. When the matter was initially set down, there were preliminary points raised which were disposed of by the Court see order number LC/H/ORD/347/2022. The appellant was grieved and sought leave to appeal against the Court’s decision to the Supreme Court. Leave was granted and the matter was referred to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declined to deal with the appeal at that juncture preferring to deal with the... More
The applicant was arraigned before a Regional Magistrate’s Court sitting at Bulawayo facing a charge of contravening section 65 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment of which 3 years were wholly suspended for 5 years on condition accused does not within that period commit any offence of a sexual nature. The State alleged that on a date unknown to the prosecutor but during the period extending from 2019 to 2020, and at house number 729 Jacaranda, Gwanda, the accused person had sexual intercourse with Precious Mpunzi, a... More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court, which dismissed the appellant’s application for setting aside an arbitral award made by the second respondent. More
