ADLECRAFT INVESTMENTS (PRIVATE) LIMITED versus ZIMBABWE CONSOLIDATED DIAMOND COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED

Harare High Court · HH194-23 · 03 2023

This is an urgent court application for an order directing the respondent to pay the sum of US$13 824 163.22 to the applicant together with costs of suit on the attorney-client scale. The claim arises from an agreement between the…

THE STATE Versus CLEMENT SIBANDA

Bulawayo High Court · HB 128-23 · 03 2023

The accused faces a charge of murder it being alleged that on the 1st of March 2022, and at his own homestead Halale village, Matobo the accused struck Langton Ngwenya once with an axe on the center of the head…

ESTHER HODZA and LOVEMORE RAYMOND HODZA versus OFFICER IN CHARGE MVURWI POLICE STATION N.O and OFFICER COMMANDING POLICE, MOUNT DARWIN DISTRICT and OFFICER COMMANDING POLICE, MASHONALAND CENTRAL and COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF ZIMBABWE and PROSECUTOR-GENERAL

Harare High Court · HH 338-23 · 03 2023

The applicants had their property itemised in the draft order seized by the police pending the criminal proceedings in the Magistrates Court at Mount Darwin. The applicants had mounted a similar application before this court under case number HC3678/21 which…

UNKI MINES (PRIVATE) LIMITED v DOHNE CONSTRUCTION (PRIVATE) LIMITED

Supreme Court · SC-18-23 · 03 2023

MUSAKWA JA: This is an opposed chamber application for condonation for non-compliance with the Supreme Court Rules, 2018 and for extension of time in which to appeal made in terms of r 43. The intended appeal is against a judgment…

JOICE GUHWA VERSUS TRADITIONAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS COUNCIL

Labour Court · LC-H-77-23 · 03 2023

At the onset of the review application the applicant raised the point in limine stating that there is no opposition to the review application on account of the fact that the opposing affidavit was deposed to by a person who…

JOICE GUHWA VERSUS TRADITIONAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS COUNCIL

Labour Court · LC-H-78-2023 · 03 2023

Applicant states that she was placed on indefinite suspension if one has regard to the time it took the respondent to conclude her matters. It is her view that such conduct was in breach of section 6(2) (b) of the…

GLADYS SVOSVE versus KHALED KASSIM JOOSAB and JUSTICE N T MTSHIYA

Harare High Court · HH 182-23 · 03 2023

On 6 March, 2008 Khaled Kassim Joosab (“Joosab”), the first respondent herein, leased his property, Number 4, 19 Robert Mugabe Street, Rusape (“the property”) to the applicant, one Gladys Svosve (“Gladys”). The lease which Joosab and Gladys signed was to…

NICKSON MUNAKI VERSUS DELTA BEVERAGES (PVT) LTD

Labour Court · LC-H-76-23 · 03 2023

Appellant Appealed to this Court against his dismissal from employment by Respondent. The appeal is provided for by section 92D of the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01]. Respondent opposed the appeal. The grounds of appeal were four-fold.

MARY SEKAI TANDE AND EAGLESVALE JUNIOR SCHOOL

Labour Court · LC-H-75-23 · 03 2023

Applicant worked for Respondent as a teacher in Harare. She was dismissed from employment for misconduct. She appealed to respondent’s Appeals Officer who dismissed the appeal on the 16th June 2022. On the 8th July 2022 she appealed to this…

MARTIN MATENHERE AND CORNWAY COLLEGE

Labour Court · LC-H-74-23 · 03 2023

On the 16th September 2022, respondent’s disciplinary authority dismissed appellant from employment for misconduct. Appellant then appealed to this Court in terms of section 92 D of the Labour Act Chapter 28:01. Respondent opposed the appeal. The grounds of appeal…

GODFREY JOSI versus THE STATE

Harare High Court · HH 204-23 · 03 2023

This is an appeal against conviction and sentence. The appellant was convicted of one count of “possession of a firearm without a licence” in contravention of s 4(1) of the Firearms Act [Chapter 10:09] and unlawful possession of explosives in…

LEROY GOLIATH and SIMBARASHE CHAITEZVI and LARRY MAKAHAMADZE and ERIC MAPONGA and CLEVER GWATIRISA versus ELEGIA GANDIWA and MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC WORKS & NATIONAL HOUSING N.0 and CITY OF HARARE

Harare High Court · HH 171-23 · 03 2023

On the 25 of October, I handed down an ex tempore ruling in which I dismissed the applicants’ claim. At that point, the applicants were represented by James Majatame Attorneys At Law. It appears that the applicants have now secured…

JOHN NYAKAMHA versus LOBELS BREAD (PRIVATE LIMITED)

Harare High Court · HH 175-23 · 03 2023

The applicant’s response to the query raised on 16 January 2023 erroneously dated 16 January 2022 is acknowledged. Applicant should note that a respondent who has failed to take appropriate action in response to court proceedings (in this case an…

JOB SIKHALA versus MAREHWANAZVO GOFA N.O. and THE NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY and THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL

Harare High Court · HH 176-23 · 03 2023

This is an urgent chamber application for stay of a criminal trial being presided over by the first respondent sitting as the magistrate court at Harare pending determination of two court applications for review pending before this court against two…

THE STATE versus YEUKAI GRAHAM MUTERO

Harare High Court · HH 178-23 · 03 2023

This case evokes once again, the raging debate regarding the administration of corporal punishment on children by parents and guardians. Whichever side one takes in the discourse, it is a fact that some of the unintended consequences of that method…

MISHECK MUKARATI and LOVEMORE MUKARATI versus MASTER OF THE HIGH COURT N.O and NOREEN CHIKAKA N.O and CHITUNGWIZA MUNICIPALITY and ANDERSON REMUYANGA and LYDIA CHIKAKA

Harare High Court · HH 179-23 · 03 2023

The two applicants seek to reverse the sale of a property in a deceased estate. The property is known as 16286 Unit M, Seke, Chitungwiza and it belonged to the estate of the late David Chirikure Mukarati who was their…

ALICE MAGODORA versus BLESSING MOSES NDUNA

Harare High Court · HH 181-23 · 03 2023

Appellant is a maternal grandparent with de facto custody of a minor child born on 22 December 2008, having assumed full responsibility for parenting the child whose mother died in a traffic accident in April 2016. The respondent is the…

ZIMBABWE PLATINUM MINES (PRIVATE) LIMITED v ZIMBABWE REVENUE AUTHORITY

Supreme Court · SC-16-23 · 03 2023

This is an appeal against part of the judgment of the Special Court for Income Tax Appeals handed down on 14 August 2020, dismissing the appellants’ appeal against the respondent’s Commissioner’s dismissal of its objection in respect of its failure…

EPHRAIM MUZIWA versus THE STATE

Harare High Court · HH 200-23 · 03 2023

1. The applicant was convicted by the Magistrates Court pursuant to a fully contested trial on a charge of rape as defined in s 65 of the Criminal Law Code.

STATE versus ALIVINE MUSIWARWO and CLEVER MUSIWARWO

Harare High Court · HH 203-23 · 03 2023

The two accused persons who are brothers pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder as defined in s 47(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Criminal Law Code).