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: In the early hours of Sunday 6 October, 2019, at approximately the hour of 0545 two buses of the Yutong make collided head on along the A5 Highway at the 234 Kilometer peg. The A5 Highway is the road from Harare to Bulawayo or the vice versa direction. The 234 kilometre peg is located between Kwekwe and Gweru. The accident can only be described as tragic and horrific. It marked a sad day for the country which lost thirteen of its citizens from injuries sustained due to the accident. Scores of surviving passengers were injured to various degrees. The... More

Appellant appealed to this Court against his dismissal from employment by Respondents. The appeal was made in terms of Section 51(1) of the Public Service Regulations S.I. 1 of 2000. Respondents opposed the appeal. More

: This is an urgent chamber application wherein applicant seeks stay of executor. The facts as given in the founding affidavit are as follows: On 30 November 2011 first responded issued summons against the applicant for malicious prosecution malicious arrest and detention for USD 400 000 plus interest. The matter was set down for trial in the course of the trial an application for absolution from the instance was made and it was granted in favour of the applicant. First respondent appealed that judgment to the Supreme Court. Under SC 51/19 the Supreme Court rendered a judgment in favour of... More

This civil trial matter was heard on 5 February 2025. Before the commencement of the trial, the plaintiff’s counsel made an oral application for a postponement of the matter. After hearing oral submissions from the parties’ legal practitioners, the court issued an ex tempore judgment the operative part of which was that the application for a postponement was dismissed. Following the dismissal of the application and the court being satisfied that the plaintiff was not present, I proceeded in terms of rule 56(3) of the High Court Rules, 2021. Consequently, the court granted judgment in favour of the first defendant... More

: This matter was placed before me as an urgent chamber application. The applicants seek an order as couched below:- “TERMS OF THE FINAL RELIEF That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms: The Provisional order be and is hereby confirmed. The respondent shall pay applicants’ cost of suit on the legal practitioner and client scale More

On 4th June 2024 at Harare, Arbitrator N Shumba issued an award which ordered respondents to pay appellants their “back pays in arrears” by way of installments over one (1) year Appellants then appealed the award to this Court in term of section 98 (10) of the Labour Act Chapter 28:01 hereafter called the Act. Respondent opposed the appeal. More

Applicants applied to this Court for the reinstatement of an abandoned matter. The application is provided for by Rule 36 of the Labour Court Rules, 2017. Respondent opposed the application. More