At the time Appellant was charged with misconduct, he was employed by Respondent as Acting Chief Executive Officer. Appellant’s substantive position at the time was Finance Manager. It was alleged that Appellant had failed to declare or disclose that he had an interest in the oil industry despite having signed a memorandum during the course of his employment that he was enjoined to make such disclosure. Appellant is alleged to have dishonestly denied having such interest in the oil industry. He was subsequently charged with contravening section 4 (a) of the Model Code, Statutory Instrument 15 of 2006. He was... More
On 16 May 2022 this Court (HON. MANGOTA J) issued an order (the Order) in an application HC 5689/21 pitting first respondent (applicant therein) against applicants in casu and the rest of the respondents. The order read as follows:
1. Applicant’s papers to serve as its summons.
2. Applicant to prepare, file and serve upon the respondent its declaration on or before 31 May 2022.
3. Respondent’s notice of opposition to serve on (sic) its notice of appearance to defend.
4. Respondents to prepare, file and serve upon the applicant its plea on or before 14 June 2022.
5. Thereafter... More
This application was dismissed on the date of hearing. A request has been made for reasons for the dismissal. These are they.
Applicant is facing a single count of contravening section 65 (1) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23]. The allegations are that in March 2019 the applicant raped his 16 year old biological daughter. The complainant reported the matter to her uncle who took her to the police and filed a report. More
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court Harare handed down on 21 November 2018 convicting the appellant of murder with actual intent as defined in s 47 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the “Act”) and sentencing him to death. The automatic appeal is against the sentence of death. After hearing submissions from counsel for both parties we with their consent dismissed the appellant’s appeal and indicated that reasons would follow in due course. These are they. More
This is an application for declaratory relief wherein applicant is seeking that:
1. Section 156(1)(a)(b)(c) and (e) as read with section 155 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (THE CODE);
2. Section 157(1) (a) and (b) of the CODE and
3. Section 3 as read with section 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] (THE DDA) and section 4(a) and 6(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Regulations 1975 (Rhodesia Government Notice No. 1111 of 1975) as amended by Statutory Instrument 409 of 1999 Regulations No. 4 (THE REGULATIONS). More
This is an application for an order setting aside respondent’s decision that applicant pays duty in the sum of US$16 335.60 plus ZWL 349 488.03 for missing cases of castle lite beer, lost as a result of an accident.
Briefly, the factual background of this matter is that, applicant, a clearing company, was engaged by a Zambian company to clear a consignment of liquor that was passing through Zimbabwe from South Africa. On 31 July 2021 applicant cleared the consignment.
On 3 August 2021 at around 18:30 hours and at 312km peg along the Harare – Chirundu road, the truck... More
1. This is an appeal against the decision of the judgment of the Appeal Committee at the workplace. The appellant was charged of 4 and convicted of 2 charges of acts of misconduct in terms of the employment code. A penalty of dismissal was imposed. The appeal is against both conviction and penalty. More
