Appellant appealed to this Court against his dismissal from employment by Respondent. The appeal was made in terms of Section 92D of the Labour Act Chapter 28:01. Respondent opposed the appeal. The grounds of appeal challenge the propriety of the both conviction and penalty. More
The first and second applicants are the adoptive parents of “A”, a minor child they adopted as a couple. After applicants adopted the minor children, they went on to obtain adoption orders from the Children’s Court at which point they took a further step to acquire birth certificates for them in terms of the Births and Deaths Registration Act. Central to the applicants’ case is the endorsement of the words, “unknown” on their children’s birth certificates. The applicants averred that they were shocked to discover that they had been issued with birth certificates which only had information about the children... More
This is an appeal against part of the decision of the respondents disciplinary authority which found appellant teacher guilty of act of misconduct of being absent from duty without excuse and for refusing to invigilate public examinations that were taking place at his school. Appellant was penalised by a fine of ZWL $45 000, transfer from Highfield School to Simbaredenga School and a reprimand. Appellant is unhappy with the guilty verdict emanating from his alleged refusal to invigilate Public examinations. He is also of the view that the penalties meted on him were harsh. More
The allegations against the appellants are that they rented a house in Bulawayo, being house No. 2024 Mahatshula (Mahatshula house) for the purpose of storage of stollen copper cables. In count 1, it is alleged that the police recovered from this house copper cables varying from overhead copper conductors, transformer copper bars, armored cables and scrap copper from electric motor winders and two digital scales. Scrap copper with a weight of 2600 kg valued at USD52 000.00 was recovered. In count 2, it is alleged that the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) identified the recovered armored and overhead... More
On 23 December 1995 Plaintiff and Defendant were married in terms of the then Marriage Act [Chapter 37], now the Marriages Act [Chapter 5:17]. The marriage was blessed with four children who are all majors. On 15 July 2010 Plaintiff issued out summons claiming a decree of divorce and ancillary relief. In his Declaration, Plaintiff stated that the marriage relationship between the parties has irretrievably broken down to the extent that there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation. More
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court (the court a quo) in which it dismissed the appellant’s appeal against conviction for fraud as defined in s 136 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Code) by the Magistrates Court. More
On 21st November 2022, the plaintiff instituted the present summons action in terms of section 14 of the High Court Act [Chapter 07:06], in which he seeks the following declaratory and consequential relief:
a) An order declaring that the 1st Defendant (the Trust) is entitled to subscribe to, and the 2nd Defendant (Zimbabwe Platinum) is obliged to allot to the Trust, ordinary shares in the share capital of Zimbabwe Platinum constituting 10% (ten per centum) of the issued share capital of the Zimbabwe Platinum in terms of clause 3.2 of the ZIMPLATS MHONDORO-NGEZI CHEGUTU ZVIMBA COMMUNITY SHARE OWNERSHIP TRUST MA1315/2011... More
