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This matter came as an urgent chamber application. On 23 August 2023 the applicants were arrested for violating section 66 (A) (1) (a) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13] as read with section 189 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23]. The allegations were that the applicants were gathering election results intent on announcing same as the official results. At the time of arrest the police confiscated items enumerated on Annexure “A”. More

This is an appeal against the decision of the High Court (the ‘court a quo’) in which it dismissed an application made by the appellant under HC2938/19 for the setting aside of an arbitral award. It, in the same proceedings, granted an application made under HC2554/19 by the first respondent for the recognition and registration of the same arbitral award. Both applications, heard by the court a quo, related to the same arbitral award that had been granted by the second respondent. More

This is an application for reinstatement. Applicant filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court on 23 June 2023. The Applicant failed/neglected to file heads of argument in that case which was LC/H/488/23. The matter was deemed abandoned by the Registrar on 9 August 2023 in terms Rule 46 (b). Applicant subsequently filed an application for reinstatement on 12 September 2023 in Case Number LC/H/694/23. The matter was heard on 12 March 2024 with the result that the matter was struck off the roll because of defective documents filed with that application. More

In a Notice issued on 9 August 2023, Applicant’s application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court was deemed abandoned by the Registrar in terms of Rule 46 (b) of the Labour Court Rules, 2017. This is therefore an application for reinstatement of the application. More

This is an appeal against the determination of the Registrar of Labour where he allowed the registration of the Progressive Engineering, Metal Trades and Allied Workers Union (PEMTAWU) in the face of opposition by General Engineering, Metal, Iron, Steel and Allied Workers Union (GEMISAWU), National Engineering Workers Union (NEWU) and Automative and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe (AAWUZ). Background to the matter is that PEMTAWU applied for registration as a trade union in terms of section 33 of the Labour Act. Such registration was challenged by GEMISAWU, NEWU and AAWUZ. After hearing oral submissions and looking at documentary evidence tendered... More

This is an appeal against the judgment of the Labour Court (the court a quo) sitting at Bulawayo handed down on 31 May 2022 which ordered the appellant to pay to the first respondent the sum of ZWL 11 417 548.17 and to the second respondent the sum of ZWL 2 951 701.67. The court a quo ordered these amounts to be back dated increments on the salaries the respondents earned during the period 2002 to 2008, inclusive of interest at the rate of 5% per annum for 14 years. More

The applicant and the 1st respondent executed a written agreement for the supply, delivery and installation of instrumentation, control and electrical equipment for the Mabvuku Ethanol Storage Tanks Project. The contract price was US$ 2 268 199.90. It was a material term of the agreement that the applicant would defray the 1st respondent’s costs for materials purchased for the project on production of an invoice, valuation report and interim certificate. The parties amended the agreement on two subsequent occasions in order to address the changes in the country’s monetary policy. The main effect of the amendments was to restructure the... More