Parks and Wildlife Management Authority is a Statutory Body empowered to control, manage and possess Victoria Falls National Park in terms of the Parks and Wildlife Management Act [Chapter 20:14]. Its relationship with Defendant is that of Lessor and Lessee over a restaurant and Curio Shop situated in the Rainforest at Victoria Falls National Park. The Lease Agreement between the parties was signed on the 2nd of March 2018. The lease period is extant, running from 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2027. From 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2022, Defendant was to pay an annual lease fee/rent of... More
Applicant is the lawful occupier of premises known as Parkview Weizman Sports Club (hereinafter referred to as the premises). Applicant holds a lease with the City of Bulawayo dated 8 June 1956. In or about the year 2001 applicant entered into a verbal sub-lease agreement in terms of which respondent took occupation of a portion of the premises. Respondent leases the premises for the purposes of operating a bar and a hall. In terms of the verbal lease respondent was obliged to pay rentals amounting to US$60 per month. Applicant alleges that respondent has not paid rentals since October 2015.... More
The respondent sought a protection order against the appellant in terms of s 8 of the Domestic Violence Act [Chapter 5:16]. She contended that the appellant was of violent disposition, and had subjected her to physical, emotional, psychological and economic abuse. After reading papers filed of record and hearing the parties the court a quo found that the respondent had proved a case of domestic violence as defined in the Domestic Violence Act. More
The applicants seek an order compelling the first respondent to transfer to them within three months of the order, ownership of a certain piece of land situate in Harare called Stand 3225 Bluffhill Township. The claim is based on an alleged agreement of sale between the applicants and the first respondent dated 23 June 2016. The applicants allege the first respondent has evinced an intention to cancel that agreement, or to breach it. More
The applicant was in the informal business of vending. On 17 April 2017, while selling her wares from a pavement on Chinhoyi Street close to Robert Mugabe Avenue in Harare, she was involved in a tragic accident. In her company was her son who was aged one year and two months. More
In this case the applicant was convicted of negligent driving as defined is s 52(2) of the Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11] and sentenced, on 2 April 2023, to pay a fine. In addition, he was prohibited from driving classes 2, 3 and 5 motor vehicles for an unspecified period. His licence was cancelled and he was ordered to surrender the licence to the clerk of court. This is an application for the suspension of that part of the punishment which relates to the prohibition from driving, and cancellation of the applicant’s driver’s licence. At the hearing I was advised... More
This is an application for condonation for noncompliance with the Labour Court Rules, 2017. The applicant seeks to file his notice of appeal out of time. He is out of time by 391 days. The applicant stated that he received the decision he is seeking to appeal against in December 2021.
In January 2022 he noted his appeal against his employer’s decision to find him guilty and to dismiss him. The appeal was defective. He then filed an application to reinstate the appeal but this too was fatally defective. It was struck of the roll sometime in September 2022. On... More
