This is an appeal against part of a judgment of the High Court (‘court a quo’) handed
down on 13 December 2021 in HH 702/21, in which the court granted the respondent an
order to evict the appellant and all those claiming occupation through him from No. 60
Circular Drive, Burnside, Bulawayo. The court a quo, in the same judgment, dismissed
the appellant’s claim in reconvention seeking a declaratur that the purported
cancellation of the agreement was invalid, that payment of the purchase price to the
conveyancer be declared full performance of the appellant’s obligations under the
agreement and finally... More
1. This is an appeal against the whole determination done by a designated agent for the National Employment Council for the Air Transport Industry dated the 31st March 2023. More
On the 13th of March the parties were in court on an appeal by the applicant. The respondent raised a preliminary point to the effect that the right to appeal was prescribed as has been decided in Patrick Munjovha v Delta Beverages (Pvt) Ltd SC 64/21. The appellant conceded the point and the appeal was struck off. (In hindsight it should have been dismissed. The order was uploaded the following day, the 14th. More
Eustaches Orphanides must be turning, if not rolling in his grave over the disputes that have sprouted after his death over his company, assets and over his will. He is at the very centre of the four consolidated matters before me in this opposed application. He is represented by his executor Thoukidides Demetriou. On the other side is Gilbert Tawanda Kaguru, a former business associate of Eustaches Orphanides. Eustaches died on 23 January 2021 and his estate was registered with the Master of the High Court under DR 463/21. More
This appeal involves the sale of a motor vehicle gone wrong. After the sale of the motor vehicle some two years later it was seized by ZIMRA officials resulting in the buyer approaching the Magistrates court seeking reimbursement of the sale price and related relief. The seller counter claimed for the sum of US$2 500 which had been given to the buyer for payment of duty. The court a quo found for the buyer dismissed the counter claim. The seller is unhappy about this resolution and filed this appeal. More
The applicant, a group of seventeen (17) Zimbabwean women all of whom are in the diaspora, applies for a mandamus. It moves me to:
i) prohibit the respondent from transferring or allocating any portion of the Remainder of Subdivision E of Douglousdale, Bulawayo (“the property”) which is 38, 8495 hectares in extent to any person who has not contributed to the purchase of the same;
ii) compel the respondent to furnish to it, through its legal practitioners of record, the list of all persons who contributed towards the purchase of the property;
iii) compel the respondent to notify it, through... More
This is an urgent chamber application sui generis where the applicant is seeking a final order in the form of a declarateur against the respondents. The 2nd respondent has been cited in his official capacity as he had been in the previous suit. Under normal circumstances, an interim relief is sought by way of an urgent chamber leaving room for the parties to return to argue their case in support or against the granting of a final order. More
