The major issue to be decided in this case is whether a party is entitled to seek audience in order to make oral submissions on urgency where a judge has made a decision that the matter is not urgent and ordered that the case should be struck off the roll of urgent matters with reasons which appear on the face of such order. In the case at hand, the applicants filed an urgent chamber application on the 17th of July 2024 seeking an interim order to interdict the 1st and 2nd respondents from carrying out mining activities at the disputed... More
On the 6th of April 2021, the plaintiff caused a summons to be issued from this Court praying for a decree of divorce, and sharing of marital property. Maintenance was to continue being regulated by the extant order of the Kwekwe maintenance court. The defendant entered an appearance to defend and the matter progressed to trial leading to this judgment. More
This is an appeal against a determination by the Respondents’ Chief Executive Officer sitting in his capacity as an Appeals Authority. The determination which was handed down on 3rd of June, 2020, in its operative part, dismissed the appeal noted by the now Appellant against the determination of the disciplinary committee. Secondly, the appeals authority upheld a cross appeal by the now Respondent, thereby setting aside the lesser penalty imposed by the respondents’ Disciplinary Committee and substituting it with a heavier penalty of dismissal from respondent’s employment with immediate effect. The Respondent was also directed to recover from the Appellant... More
This is an appeal against the whole decision of the respondent’s chief executive officer sitting as the internal appeals officer dated 15 December 2023. This appeal is opposed.The appellant was employed by Ilala Lodge (the respondent) as a guest relations officer sometime in 2022. In November 2023 the appellant allegedly received a sum of money from a senior employee that was meant for the tips box. The appellant was subsequently suspended from employment pending a disciplinary hearing which was then held on 28 November 2023. The disciplinary authority found the appellant guilty of corruption and the appellant was dismissed from... More
The first respondent is one of the major hospitals in Zimbabwe. It is also a registered school of nursing . It falls under the jurisdiction of the 2nd respondent. In its capacity as a school of nursing, 1st respondent has the duty to train students as nurses. Upon qualification as nurses its students have the duty to look after the sick and they perform such duties in various medical facilities countrywide including the 1st respondent itself. The parent body for both respondents is the Ministry of Health and Child Care ( the Ministry). More
This is an application for quantification of damages in which the Applicant is seeking the total sum of USD $1 446 738, 75 as salaries and back pay in lieu of reinstatement for a period running from July 2016 to January 2023. The Applicant is also claiming punitive damages on the Respondent in the sum of USD $624 000 in addition to pension and medical aid. The Respondent is of the view that the amounts claimed by the Applicant are absurd and totally unwarranted given the fact that the Applicant found alternative employment from March 2018 to August 2021.It also... More
The applicant claims to hold rights, title and interest in a property situate in Belvedere suburb, Harare called stand 40295 Belvedere measuring 2106 square metres. She claims to have purchased the property by reason of a cession of rights from one Chris Edwin who had purchased the property from the third respondent. The agreement of sale between Chris Edwin and the third respondent was attached to the applicant’s supplementary affidavit filed on 25 July 2022. That agreement was executed by the third respondent and Chris Edwin on 10 October 2016. In terms of clause 8 of the agreement of sale... More
