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
The applicant is a corporate duly registered in terms of the laws of Zimbabwe. It is suing out for a declaratory order to the effect that the judgment debt in case number HC 1977/18 is payable in United States Dollars or in Zimbabwean dollars converted at the bank rate subsisting at the time payment will be made. The relief it seeks as per its draft is couched as follows: More
This is an appeal in which the appellant appealed against parts of the High Court’s (“the court a quo”) judgment handed down on 30 April 2023. The court a quo ordered the appellant to surrender a motor vehicle, cellphone, iPad and laptop to the respondent. The appellant was dissatisfied by the court a quo’s finding that the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) had locus standi to sue the appellant without a board resolution to that effect. More
The Applicant is a former employee of the 1st Respondent. He was employed in the capacity of ICT Manager in April 2012. On the 5th of July 2021 the 1st Respondent served him with a suspension letter and a charge sheet. The 1st Respondent levelled a charge of breach of section 4(a) of the Labour (National Employment Code of Conduct) Regulations 2006 (Statutory Instrument 15 of 2006) i.e. (a) any act or conduct or omission inconsistent with the fulfilment of the express or implied conditions of (your) contract. More
The applicants via this review application seek an order setting aside the decision of the Magistrates’ court at Zvishavane, per MATURA Esquire (the 2nd respondent) granting an application for execution pending appeal. The execution being the eviction of the applicants from houses which they occupied at the time of the application by virtue of their employment with the 1st respondent. More
1. This is an application for bail pending trial. The applicant is charged with the crime of murder as defined in section 47 (1) of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23]. It being alleged that on the 3rd November 2022 at around 2300 hours at Msotsha Bar, Nkankezi Business Centre, Filabusi the accused acting in common purpose with an accomplice still at large caused the death of Benito Dube (deceased). It is alleged further that the applicant stabbed the deceased with an Okapi knife, once on the back, once on the left side of the stomach, and... More
