MARGARET CHAU (NEE KUMBEMBA) versus DOUGLAS CHAU

Harare High Court · HH-11-23 · 01 2023

This is a divorce action in which the only issue in dispute relates to the division of the matrimonial home described as Stand Number 167 Vainona Township of Vainona situate in the District of Salisbury and measuring 4599 square meters.…

GODFREY MUSORO versus ANESU ELIFA MUSORO

Harare High Court · HH-10-23 · 01 2023

The parties customarily married in 1998 and solemnised their marriage officially on 30 June 2005. They lived together till 2018. They had three children one of whom is still a minor having been born on 7 October 2005. The issues…

TENDAI LAXTON BITI and CHALTON HWENDE and UNGANAI TARUSENGA and MURISI ZWIZWAI and WILLIAS MADZIMURE and SICHELESILE MAHLANGU and CASTON MATEWU and SETTLEMENT CHIKWINYA and AMOS CHIBAYA and SUSAN MATSUNGA versus JACOB MUDENDA N.O. and THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE

Harare High Court · HH-08-23 · 01 2023

The applicants are members of Citizens Coalition for Change (“CCC”) - a political party which plays opposition politics in Zimbabwe. All ten of them and nine others who are not part of this application were elected into Parliament on the…

COMBINED HARARE RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION and BORROWDALE RESIDENTS AND RATE PAYERS ASSOCIATION and CLEVER RAMBANEPASI and IAN MAKONE and ELVIS RUZANI versus MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS AND NATIONAL HOUSING

Harare High Court · HH-07-23 · 01 2023

This is an application challenging the constitutionality of the provisions of s 314 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] as being ultra vires the provisions of ss 264 and 265(1) and (2), s 274 and s 276 of the…

INNSCOR AFRICA LIMITED Versus SLICE DISTRIBUTORS (PVT) LTD And REGISTRAR OF DEEDS

Harare High Court · HH-06-23 · 01 2023

The debate over what came first, the chicken or the egg has never been resolved to finality. In casu, however, the question of what is in a chicken has a one- word answer to the plaintiff and the defendant -…

TERRENCE MUKUPE versus THE STATE

Harare High Court · HH-11-24 · 01 2023

1. This is an application brought in terms of s 123 (1) (a) (i) of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [ Chapter 9:07] as read with Rule 90 (4) (e) of the High Court Rules, 2021 for the admission…

THE STATE Versus VINCENT DUBE

Bulawayo High Court · HB 09/23 · 01 2023

1. This court (per KAMOCHA J) on 13 September 2013 convicted the accused of the crime of murder with actual intent to kill. The court found that there were no extenuating circumstances and passed a sentence of death. The accused…

TAYENGWA CHIURIRI versus THE STATE

Harare High Court · HH 52/23 · 01 2023

1. This is an appeal against both conviction and sentence. 2. The appellant was convicted of two counts of rape as defined in s 65(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23].

AJARA TRUCKING LOGISTICS (PVT) LTD versus ZIMBABWE REVENUE AUTHORITY

Harare High Court · HH-09-23 · 01 2023

This is an urgent chamber application based on spoliation as well as breach of s 68 of the Constitution and s 3 (1) (a) of the AJA. It bears giving the background to this matter so as to put the…

BENJAMIN SIBANDA versus OBADIAH SIBANDA and NATHAN SIBANDA and CHARLES SIBANDA and JOHN SIBANDA and MISHECK SIBANDA and JELITHA SIBANDA N.O. (Executor, Estate Late Cornelius Sibanda) and THE SHERIFF OF THE HIGH COURT

Harare High Court · HH-05-23 · 01 2023

This application before the court is an offshoot of a bill of costs that was taxed by a taxing officer on 16 November 2020 in favour of the respondents. The application was opposed by the first, third and fourth respondents…

STEPHEN NDLOVU Versus THE STATE

Bulawayo High Court · HB 04/23 · 01 2023

This is an application for bail pending appeal in terms of section 123 (b) (1) of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act (Chapter 9:07) as read with Rule 90 (4) (e) of the High Court Rules 2021.

LUKE DUBE Versus THE SHERIFF OF ZIMBABWE N.O. And EXMIN SYNDICATE And THE PROVINCIAL MINING DIRECTOR MATABELELAND SOUTH N.O. And THE OFFICER IN CHARGE ZIMBABWE REPUBLIC POLICE FILABUSI N.O. And THE OFFICER COMMANDING ZIMBABWE REPUBLIC POLICE, MATABELELAND SOUTH N.O. And REGISTRAR OF THE HIGH COURT

Bulawayo High Court · HB 3/23 · 01 2023

1. This is an urgent application wherein initially the applicant sought a provisional order. At the hearing the court mero motu raised the issue whether this court has the jurisdiction and the competence to pronounce on the validity or lack…

ESOR ZIMBABWE (PRIVATE) LIMITED Versus STANFORD K. SAKUPWANYA And N. MASUKU N.O. And THE MESSENGER OF COURT, HARARE N.O.

Bulawayo High Court · HB2/23 · 01 2023

1. This is an urgent chamber application for stay of execution pending review. The applicant seeks a provisional order couched as follows: Terms of final order sought

TAWANDA MUSAKANDA Versus LOVEMORE WADZVANYA And BENJAMIN CHIKOWERO (In his capacity as executor of the Estate Late Anna Musakanda DR 2785/16) And MASTER OF THE HIGH COURT

Bulawayo High Court · HB 1/23 · 01 2023

On 12th September 2018 the plaintiff issued summons against the defendants in which he claimed the following:- “(a) An order that the will declared deemed (sic) to have been attested to by the late Anna Musakanda on 31 December 2013…

TEVIOT TRUST (PVT) LTD versus KASEPLAN GRAND INDUSTRIES (PVT) LTD

Harare High Court · HH-03-23 · 01 2023

Facts in this matter seem to be common cause save as may be specified. The Applicant and the Respondent are companies duly registered as such in terms of the laws of Zimbabwe. Some time in 2004, the Minister of Lands…

THE STATE versus BENJAMIN GONZO

Harare High Court · HH 25/23 · 01 2023

The late conclusion of the trial in this matter resulted from the indisposition of one of the members of the court being assessor Mr Musengezi. The accused has after being notified of the continued indisposition of the assessor agreed that…

THE SHERIFF FOR ZIMBABWE versus AUDIOMAX 2010 (PVT) LTD t/a AUDIO MAX CLINIC and MIKE MAWOYO and WIZEAR TRUST WIZEAR TRUST HC 4368/21 and Ref SC 561/19 MIKE MAWOYO and THE SHERIFF OF ZIMBABWE

Harare High Court · HH-04-23 · 01 2023

The applicant filed an interpleader notice in terms of Order 30A Rule 205A as read with Rule 207 of the High Court Rules, 1971 (the old rules), under HC 979/21. Audiomax 2010 (Pvt) Ltd t/a Audio Max Clinic is the…

MITZI CARRUTHERS (in her capacity as Executrix Dative and sole beneficiary of the Estate Late Martha Elizabeth Van Der Linde) versus THE COMBINED SERVICE ORGANISATIONS’ TRUST (Registered as Athol Evans Hospital Home under Reg No. 31/60) and MASTER OF THE HIGH COURT N.O.

Harare High Court · HH-01-23 · 12 2022

On 5 August 2014 one Gert Willem Van Der Linde (“Gert”) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Van Der Linden (“Martha”), entered into a contract with the first respondent (“the respondent”), a charitable and not-for-profit trust, which is set up in…

ISAAC CHIDUKU and JECONIAH CHIDUKU and NOREEN CHIDUKU versus AMOS CHIDUKU and DROWACK INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD And CAPEVALLEY PROPERTIES (PVT) LTD and NORTON TOWN COUNCIL and ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Harare High Court · HH-214-23 · 12 2022

: This is an application in which the applicant seeks a provisional order on the following terms – the interim relief as sought reads: “That pending the determination of this matter the applicants are granted the following relief: (a) The…

FISHROD INVESTMENTS (Private) Limited versus CITY OF HARARE and MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL HOUSING N.O and SAMUEL NYABEZI and NESBERT MUKORA and LIANGMING JIN

Harare High Court · HH 195-23 · 12 2022

On the 26th of July 2022, the parties appeared before me and made submissions on the preliminary points which had been raised by the 4th and 5th respondents. After hearing arguments from both sides, a judgment, number HH620/22, on the…