AUGUSTINE TANAYE DUBE Versus BARCLAYS BANK OF ZIMBABWE LTD STAFF PENSION FUND And FIRST CAPITAL BANK (FORMER BARCLAYS BANK OF ZIMBABWE LTD)

Bulawayo High Court · HB 244-23 · 12 2023

Plaintiff issued summons claiming the following:- (1) The payment of the sum of ZWL$3000,0001-00, being damages for pain and suffering arising from a slip and fall accident which occurred on 13 March 2019. (2) The payment of US2000-00 on the…

CHIDOCHEMOYO IMMACULATE SIBANDA versus HUGH SIBANDA

Harare High Court · HH 648-23 · 12 2023

This is an appeal against the decision of the Children’s Court for the Province of Mashonaland sitting at Harare. Appellant and respondent are married and their marriage was blessed with two minor children. On or about March 2022, appellant moved…

CITIZENS FOR COALITION FOR CHANGE versus SENGEZO TSHABANGU and SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY N.O. and PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE N.O. and MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS N.O.

Harare High Court · HH 652-23 · 12 2023

This is an urgent application for an interdict directed principally at the first respondent with the rest of the respondents being cited as interested parties who may in law be required to perform consequential acts to give effect to the…

THE STATE versus SAMUEL MICHAEL MUTSVUNGUMA

Harare High Court · HH 653-23 · 12 2023

The appellant was charged, tried and convicted of fraud as defined in s 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. He was sentenced on 19 April, 2022 to 24 months imprisonment 3 months of which was…

CHANDRA MOHAN GOYEL v (1) MYRAMMAR FARMING (PRIVATE) LIMITED t/a COTTONZIM (2) VIRENDRA RANCHOD (3) MANOJKUMAR JIVAN (4) JAYPRAKASH PATEL (5) VINODKUMAR RAMA (6) SERISH PURSHOTAM RANCHOD (7) GLOWORM INVESTMENTS (PRIVATE) LIMITED

Supreme Court · SC 59-24 · 12 2023

In December 2011, the applicant lent and advanced an amount of One Million United States Dollars (USD$1 000 000.00), (hereinafter referred to as the loan) to the first respondent to fund its cotton seed purchase for the 2012 buying season.…

LOVEMORE CHITSURO and WILSON NYAMBONBO and RUTH WILLIAM and TAURAI NGAVAPFUME and SPIWE PHIRI and NOMUSA NGWENYA and JOSHUA BUSHE and SAM CHARUMBIRA and TARISAI HONDOYACHEPA and PFAVAI ANNA FUNGAI and JOHN ZANO and FANUEL CHIHAMBA and GILBERT MUNETSI and PATRICIA KALIYEKA and RUDO MUTUNAMI and SHELLA CHIKURIRO and CHRISTINA CHATURA and MUNYARDZI CHWAYA versus MASSMORE INVESTMENTS (PRIVATE) LIMITED and CHITUNGWIZA MUNICIPALITY and SHERIFF OF ZIMBABWE

Harare High Court · HH 649-23 · 12 2023

This is an urgent application in which the applicants seek to interdict an order for eviction and demolition of their properties from specified stands in Manyame, Chitungwiza.

STATE versus PIAS MUKANDI alias JAMBA

Harare High Court · HH 666-23 · 12 2023

The accused stands accused of committing a heinous crime of murder. A crime so brutal that it has left the family of Moreblessing Ali shattered and the community of Nyatsime in shock.

ZIMBABWE POWER COMPANY v INTRATREK ZIMBABWE

Supreme Court · SC 127-23 · 12 2023

This is an appeal against the whole judgement of the High Court (the court a quo) sitting at Harare, dated 11 January 2023, wherein it declared that the procurement contract entered into between the appellant and the respondent was valid…

THE STATE Versus ISAAC MAPIKI

Chinhoyi High Court · HCC 59-23 · 11 2023

The accused was convicted on a charge of removal of an animal from one place to another in contravention of s59 of the Parks and Wildlife Act (Chapter 20:14). He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment of which 6 months…

THE STATE versus JEREMIAH SAUNGWEME

Harare High Court · HH 635-23 · 11 2023

Jeremiah Saungweme (the accused) was a security officer with a private security company called VS Security. He together with others was deployed to guard Shamva Gold Mine against the somewhat incessant invasions of its gold fields by illegal artisanal miners…

BARRIADE INVESTMENT (PVT) LTD versus TENDAI MASHAMHANDA

Harare High Court · HH 637-23 · 11 2023

This application is for an order under the rei vindicatio remedy to recover possession and control of property. Put differently, the applicant seeks respondent’s eviction from the property known as THE REMAINDER of SUBDIVISION C OF LOT 6 OF LOTS…

AURIGA MINERAL EXPLORATION PRIVATE LIMITED versus KORZIM STRATEGIC MINERALS PRIVATE LIMITED and ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AGENCY and SHERIFF FOR ZIMBABWE N.O

Harare High Court · HH 639-23 · 11 2023

The applicant, Auriga Mineral Exploration (Pvt) Ltd, a holder of an Exclusive Prospecting Order Number 1806 (EPO 1806) which it says was issued in 2021 for a three-year period has brought this urgent application for an interdict. The basis is…

CRYSON JENA and JUNIOR CHIPO MAKUMBE and BRIGHTON KANDIMBA and COSMOS A KAWONDERA and BEAU K TSATSI and OLIVER MASOMERA and VIOLET MABUGU and CONRAD SHAMBARE and ANDREW JEMEDZE and ERICA MAPURANGA and MABHUGU TREVOR and KARIMAZONDO DANIEL and TAKAWIRA TYAVAMBIZA and KAHARI RANGARIRAYI and NYASHA MATIMAIRE versus GODSPLAN SIZIBA and CITY OF HARARE (DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKS) and MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS and THE SHERIFF OF THE HIGH COURT

Harare High Court · HH 640-23 · 11 2023

The applicant and his fourteen co- applicants comprise a group of mainly senior Zimbabwe National Army Officers who claim rights of ownership and /or possession of a piece of land measuring 4.1 hectares which is described as stand 393 Greendale…

ANESU GOLD (PVT) LTD versus ONESIMO MAZAI MOYO N.O and TARIRO NDHLOVU N.O and GOLDEN REEF MINING (PVT) LTD and WINSTON CHITANDO N.O

Harare High Court · HH 642-23 · 11 2023

The claim was based on the grounds that the forfeitures of the Mining Claims were unlawful, illegal, wrongful and malicious. The issuance of the Special Grant No 7321 (the Special Grant) was similarly unlawful having been issued with the connivance…

THE STATE versus CLAYTON MABASA HUNDA

Harare High Court · HH 56-24 · 11 2023

The offender appeared before this court charged with the crime of murdering his wife. After a contested trial, we dismissed his protestations and convicted him of the murder. Briefly, the facts proven at trial were that on the fateful night…

VISION /R4 CORPORATION versus PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER SERVICES and CHRISTOPHER ANDREW SAMKANGE and ASSUMPTA SAMKANGE

Harare High Court · HH 630-23 · 11 2023

The plaintiff and the first defendant were partners in a computer software business. The two successfully tendered to supply the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) with some computer software that NSSA required for its operations. The first defendant did not…

ESTHER VARETA versus TAURAI TALENT CHAZA

Harare High Court · HH 638-23 · 11 2023

This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the Magistrate Court sitting at Chitungwiza on 7 June 2023wherein the court awarded the custody of the parties minor child, a son, to the appellant’s estranged husband. The child in issue…

JOB SIKHALA and MAREHWANAZVO GOFA and NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY and THE PROSECUTOR –GENERAL

Harare High Court · HH 641-23 · 11 2023

1. The first matter is an appeal against the whole judgment of the magistrates court convicting the appellant on a charge of defeating or obstructing the course of justice as defined in s 184(1)(e) of the Criminal Law (Codification and…

THE STATE versus CLAYTON MABASA HUNDA

Harare High Court · HH 643-23 · 11 2023

Clayton Mabasa Hunda, (hereinafter called “the accused”) appeared before us charged with the crime of murder in contravention of s 47(1), of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The allegations against him are that on 8 November…

THE STATE versus LEARMORE CHIMUKOPA

Chinhoyi High Court · HCC 52-23 · 11 2023

In the murder case, the legal practitioners found each other but somewhere along the line they could not find the accused. This is because the legal practitioners, obviously with the concurrence of the accused agreed to proceed on the lesser…