The Applicants and the first respondent entered into a Joint Venture Agreement on 19 April 2019 for the purpose of conducting farming activities at Kwayedza Farm (crebilly), Zvimba District (the farm). The first Respondent is the holder of a 99 year lease in respect of the farm and Applicants were to be the financial and technical partners in the agreement. In furtherance of the joint venture agreement, Applicants brought a herd of cattle sheep onto the farm. The cattle are being kept on an open grazing basis and in excess of 200. More
This is an application for bail pending appeal. Applicants appeared before a Regional Magistrate sitting in Bulawayo facing a charge of theft as defined in section 113 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23). See Annexure A and B being the charge sheet and state outline respectively. Briefly the facts are that on the 13th of October 2022, the applicants were seen cutting and rolling armoured copper cables at Steam Loc National Railways of Zimbabwe. This occurred around 0300 hours. Applicants were arrested by NRZ security guards who found them in possession of five rolls of armoured... More
The brief allegations were that at the material time of the commission of the alleged offence, the appellant was employed by the complainant company as a Sales Manager at its Bulawayo Depot. On 16 December 2020, the appellant instructed the now acquitted accused person, who was a driver employed at the same company together with the appellant, to go and deliver 300 cases of Pepsi Drink at Renkini Country Bus Terminus contrary to an earlier lawful and known instruction to deliver the same consignment to Plumtree Bakery in Plumtree. This second instruction was verbal and was made in the presence... More
The parties are referred to as in the heading above. The plaintiff is an adult male person of Harare. The defendant is a duly incorporated company which is in the business of offering investments and insurance services among its other portfolios of business. In 1989 the plaintiff took out an insurance policy reference No 7127755 with the defendant. The policy was described as an “Independence Maker Insurance Policy”. More
Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo and Florence Khumalo were a couple by marriage. They are now both deceased, Florence Khumalo having pre-deceased Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo on 23 January 2011. Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo passed on, on 17 July 2019. Florence Khumalo’s estate was not registered with the Master of the High Court until shortly before the death of Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo. The applicant was appointed Executor Dative of both estates, by the 3rd respondent.
During their lifetime the now deceased couple jointly owned in equal and undivided shares an immovable property known as a Certain Piece of Land in the District of Bulawayo... More
Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo and Florence Khumalo were married couple. They are both deceased, with Florence Khumalo having pre-deceased Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo on 23 January 2011. Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo passed on 17 July 2019. Florence Khumalo’s estate was not registered with the Master of the High Court until shortly before the death of Jabulisiwe Arnot Khumalo. The applicant was appointed Executor Dative of both estates.During their lifetime the now deceased couple jointly owned in equal and undivided shares an immovable property known as a Certain Piece of Land in the District of Bulawayo being the Remainder of Subdivision D of Claremont... More
This is an application wherein applicant seeks the following relief:-
1. It be and is hereby declared that by virtue of the operation of proviso
(1) to section 11 of the Administration of Estates Act (Chapter 6:01), the 1st respondent did not have the power to declare the Last Will and Testament of the late Andrew Sibanda executed on 16 December 2013 null and void.
(2) It be and is hereby declared that by operation of section 16 (4) and (5) of the Wills Act (Chapter 6:06), the Last Will and Testament of the late Andrew Sibanda executed on the... More
