The applicants were offered stand No. 1211 Medium Density, Woodbroke North Bindura by the respondent on 17 November 2011. The full purchase price on the offer letter was in the sum of USD1500.00 which applicants paid in full upon acceptance of the offer. The respondent proceeded to allocate the stand to the applicants and deferred the signing of the Agreement of sale to a later and unspecified date pending servicing of the stand. The respondent has decided to ignore and distance itself from the offer and has issued the applicants with an agreement of sale in respect of the same... More
: This matter is an application for bail pending appeal. Before the Regional Court applicant was the first accused of the three accused in that matter. They faced four counts of rape as defined in Section 65 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23. The allegations were that the accused person’s raped female minors aged four, eight and 11 years old More
This is an application for summary judgment in an action for eviction and removal of structures. The applicant, Mitchell Corporation (Pvt) Ltd, asserts that it is the lawful owner of Stand 643, Rainham Farm, Zvimba, and that the first respondent, Leengate (Pvt) Ltd, has unlawfully encroached upon that property. The alleged encroachment consists of the first respondent (or its agents) erecting buildings or other structures on the applicant’s land without any legal right, permission, or lease agreement. The applicant seeks a summary order for the ejectment of the first respondent (and anyone claiming through it) from the property, as well... More
On 03 February 2025 this court dismissed with costs an appeal that had been filed by the appellant employer in a labour dispute pitting the employer and the employee. The court indicated that full reasons for the order could be availed on request. The employer has made a request for such reasons. More
One Jessie Chiremba (hereinafter interchangeably referred to as “the deceased or the testator”) died in 2013.There is a Will in the deceased’s name lodged with the Master’s office. The plaintiff who is the daughter and only surviving child of the deceased approached this court challenging the Will executed by the deceased on the ground of forgery. The deceased bequeathed her house being House No 6991B, Western Triangle, Highfields, Harare (“the house”) to the first defendant disinheriting the plaintiff who is her only surviving child. The Will further provides that, the house is to be inherited by the second and third... More
This is an appeal against the appellant’s dismissal from employment following disciplinary proceedings.
An order was made dismissing the appeal with costs . The following are the reasons.
At the commencement of the hearing an application was made for upliftment of an automatic bar operating against the respondent for being out time by one day in filing heads of argument. The application was not opposed. I accordingly granted the application . The respondent also had a preliminary point it intended to raise on the failure by the appellant to file the appeal within the stipulated 21-day period. However, the preliminary... More
The plaintiff, first and third defendants are companies duly registered in terms of the Zimbabwean laws while the third defendant is the Sheriff cited in his official capacity. On 28 March 2024, DEME J ordered the plaintiff to file and serve upon the defendants its summons and declaration within 10 days from the date of the order. The plaintiff’s however, filed their pleadings on 4 July 2024 which date the first defendants rightfully argues that it is way after the 10-day period. Contrary to this, the plaintiff gives its explanation narrating the series of events that took place after the... More
