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Applicant applied to this Court for the review of his dismissal from employment by Respondent. The application was made in terms of sections 92 EE and 89(1) of the Labour Act Chapter 28:01. Respondent opposed the application. More

Appellant (employee) appealed to this Court against his dismissal from employment by respondent (employer). The appeal was made in terms of Section 92D of the Labour Act Chapter 28:01 hereafter called the Act. The employer opposed the appeal. More

The appellant was employed by the respondent as a processing officer and was stationed at Parirenyatwa Hospital Sub-office. The appellant was charged with misconduct in terms of Section 44 (2) (a) as read with paragraph 3 of the 1st schedule of the Public Service Regulations SI 1 of 2000; failure to perform any work or duty properly assigned, a failure to obey a lawful instructions, including circulars, instructions or standing orders issued by the commission, the treasury or the accounting officer, the specific allegations were that she had improperly completed a notice of Birth of a child (BDI) forms in... More

This is an application for backpay. This hearing is arising from a Supreme Court decision that referred the matter back for determination on the ground that the court as an equity court should not apply strict rules of evidence but should call expert evidence to assist in determining the backpay that should be paid. Previously the court had dismissed the claim as the applicant could not bring evidence to show how his backpay should be determined in view of the changes that the Zimbabwe currency had gone through during the relevant period. More

The allegations, as set out in the Request for Remand Form, are that they criminally abused their duties as public officers as follows. They were members of the City of Harare Tender Evaluation Committee. On a date not material to this judgment, sitting as members of such Committee, they unprocedurally awarded a tender to refurbish street lights in Harare to a company called Juluka Enndo Joint Venture in breach of procurement provisions which required the procurement to be done through a competitive bidding process. Further, they disregarded their earlier decision at a previous sitting of the same City of Harare... More

The applicant was a councilor for Mt Pleasant and also a mayor of Harare City council. The allegations where that the applicant in the period between 1 March 2020 and 31 March 2020 asked one Addmore Nhekairo who was the Director of Housing, to allocate residential stands to Rotina Mafume his sister and Rutendo Muvuti a work colleague at Mafume Law Chambers. It was further alleged that at the time this request came, the interviews for Westlea stands had already closed and the two beneficiaries were not on the waiting list therefore did not have waiting list numbers. The applicant... More

This judgment is in respect of two applications which were heard together. The two applications are between the same parties. Case number HCH 6178/23 is an application for condonation of late filing of an application for rescission of a default judgment that was granted against the applicants in case number HC 280/18. The second application, HCH 6602/23, is the application for rescission of judgment to which the condonation being sought in HCH 6178/23 relates. The two applications were filed on different dates. The condonation application was filed first. The parties are the same in both cases. Also, the facts relied... More