The Applicant claims to be the registered owner of a mining claim known as ME3448G SCRAI A, located in Goromonzi district. He states that on 13 January 2025, while conducting operations at the site, the second Respondent arrived with a group of assistants and advised him that he was supposed to vacate the mining site. According to the Applicant, the second Respondent presented a warrant of ejectment, a bond of indemnity, and a letter from the first Respondent’s legal representatives. The Applicant contends that none of these documents referred to or identified him. More
[1] This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the Magistrates Court sitting at Harare convicting the appellant of 13 counts of robbery committed in aggravating circumstances as defined in s126 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Criminal Law Code). The appellant was sentenced to a total 52 years imprisonment of which 8 years were suspended on the usual conditions of good behavior. A further six years imprisonment was suspended on condition of payment of restitution to leave an effective imprisonment term of 38 years in the event that restitution were paid in full. More
This is an application for rescission of a judgment entered against the applicant. An order was made dismissing the application. The following are the reasons for the dismissal.
At the commencement of the hearing a preliminary issue was raised on behalf of the respondent regarding timeous filing of heads of argument on behalf of the applicant. The complaint was that they were filed a day out of time. Ms Banga who appeared on behalf of the applicant produced proof that they were filed after close of business on the last day of the time limit. This is why they were... More
This is a court application in which the applicant is seeking leave of the court to file opposing papers to an application for corporate rescue brought by the 1st respondent against the 2nd respondent in case number HCHC 276/24. The application is opposed by the 1st respondent. More
1. In this court application, the applicant approached the court seeking relief on an urgent basis for a declaration that the CCC Party’s office bearers and main organs elected on 26 My 2019 expired on 27 May 2024 and that the decision made by the disciplinary committee constituted of office bearers whose tenure of office had expired to expel him from the party is null and void liable to be set aside. The declaratur was brought in terms of s14 of the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06] as read with rule 59 (6) of the High Court Rules,2021. In the... More
This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court sitting at Chinhoyi (the court a quo) handed down on 29 November 2024 which granted a declaratory order and consequential relief in favour of the first respondent. It declared a raft of certificates of registration of mining claims in the name of the appellant null and void and ordered their immediate cancellation and removal from the register of the Mining Commissioner for Mashonaland West Province, the second respondent herein. It also ordered the appellant and the second respondent to pay the costs of suit. More
This is an appeal at the instance of the appellant employees and a cross appeal at the instance of the respondent employer.
The background to the matter is that the appellants and the respondent were in a contractual arrangement where the appellants were providing roving merchandising services to the respondent. They would go around supermarkets like TM and Spar advertising the respondent’s products. In return they would be paid for those services. In April 2020 they were stopped from carrying out their merchandise services by the respondent citing the COVID 19 pandemic. As at the time when they were stopped... More
