The plaintiff and defendant, who are wife and husband respectively, entered into an unregistered customary union in July 1999. They never formalised their customary union but were nonetheless customarily married from that time up until 7 September 2022 when the defendant gave his wife a divorce token (gupuro). More
This is an application for an anti-dissipation interdict in which the applicant wants the respondents prohibited from disposing of certain immovable properties pending the finalisation of the applicant’s pending summons claim under HC 2397/23. More
On 30 September 2006 the parties entered into a marriage in terms of the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11]. The couple were blessed with three children namely, Shamah Alisandra born on 24 June 2007, Jayden born on 14 September 2011 and Shalom born on 31 October 2016. Just over 12 years later, on 12 December 2018 plaintiff issued summons for divorce. More
The appellants were arraigned before the Magistrates Court at Harare on the 20th of June 2024 facing a charge of fraud. The charge emanated from the alleged use, by Blackdeck Livestock & Poultry (Pvt) Ltd (Blackdeck), of falsified documents as supporting documents, in a bid to secure a tender to supply 500 000 goats to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development for a Presidential Empowerment Scheme. The allegedly falsified documents, allegedly submitted with the bid for the purposes of meeting the requirements of the tender were, a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority Tax Clearance Certificate and a National Social... More
The respondent opposed the application and raised some points in limine. Firstly, it was submitted that the application is invalid since the form used does not exist. The applicant argues that since the application was to be served on interested parties Form 23 should have been used as required by r 60 (1) of the High Court Rules 2021. More
The applicant was employed by the respondent as an operations manager. Sometime in April 2021, the applicant was arraigned before a disciplinary committee over allegations of misconduct particularly that he had contravened Section 4 of the National Employment Code of Conduct which is; for any act, conduct or omission inconsistent with the fulfillment of the express or implied conditions of the employee’s contract of employment after having demanded books of accounts from one Mellisa Chikara and Sharon Jackson. The applicant was found guilty and subsequently dismissed from employment in May 2021. The applicant then appealed to the Labour Court and... More
This is an appeal against a decision made by a Designated Agent(DA).
The following are the grounds of appeal:
1. The arbitrator erred at law in convicting the appellant for fraud when circumstances showed that there was no intention to defraud respondent.
2. The arbitrator erred at law in imposing the maximum penalty of dismissal at first conviction without giving any reasons. The decision was arbitrary and ought to be set aside.
3. The arbitrator did not put into consideration the confirmation letter of employment flouting
the labor practice law on appellant’s part as evidence of an employee of Agri-Fresh... More
