Court Judgements




ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPERATION APPLICANT AND MATHIAS MUDZIMIRI RESPONDENT (2014-06-20)
This is an application for stay of execution of an arbitral award issued on 20 January 2014. The application was initially filed with the Registrar as an urgent chamber application on 11 February 2014. On 13 February 2014 the respondent filed with the Registrar a notice of opposition together with respondent’s opposing affidavit. On 17 February 2014 the applicant filed an answering affidavit. On 3 March 2014 this court issued an order dismissing the urgency part of the application and directed that the matter be placed before the court as an ordinary application. More

ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION APPELLANT (PVT) LTD GODWELL CHAKWANDA & 17 OTHERS RESPONDENTS (2016-10-21)
On 17 August 2015 at Harare, Arbitrator J Ndomene issued an arbitration award. He dismissed appellant’s application for rescission of an earlier award. Appellant then appealed to this court against the award. Respondent opposed the appeal. More

ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PVT) LTD VERSUS WALTER MUFANOCHIYA (2016-01-22)
This is an appeal against an arbitral award wherein the Learned Arbitrator ordered the appellant to reinstate the respondent with no loss of salary with an alternative order for damages should reinstatementbe no longer possible. The facts of this matter are as follows: The appellant company’s managerial employees formed a union called the Managerial Credit Union (MCU). The respondent was chairman of that union. It had its own constitution which governed its operations. The appellant was MCU’s guarantor with their bankers, CBZ Bank. Its (the appellant’s) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was the patron of MCU. The respondent abused the union’s... More

ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION NAMED RETRENCHEES APPLICANTS VERSUS ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION RESPONDENT (2019-06-28)
This is an application for ‘an order’. The draft is couched as follows: “(1) The application for quantification in United States Dollars be and is hereby granted. (2) The Respondent is hereby ordered to pay the Retrenchees as follows: (a) Innocencia C. Chitauro US$10 663-38 (b) Cosmas Chitauro US$2 793-36 (c) Respondent to pay costs of suit.” The application is opposed. In 2005 the present respondent filed an appeal with this court. The appeal was dismissed in judgment LC/H/70/2005. At the time that the judgment was granted the respondent was trying to resile from an agreement it had entered with... More

ZIMBABWE CANE FARMERS ASSOCIATION VERSUS FARAINESU MUTAMBA (2017-05-08)
This is a chamber application for a prohibitory interdict brought on a certificate of urgency. The applicant is a duly constituted Association whose existence and governance is in terms of its constitution. It is a voluntary association of some players in the sugar industry. More

ZIMBABWE CANVAS WORKS (PVT) LTD VERSUS CANAAN KUSANGAYA AND ROBRAY COMPANY AND KARIBA MUNICIPALITY (2024-02-15)
: This is an application for rescission of a default judgment issued against the applicant under HC 1648/21. The application was made in terms of r 63 of the old High Court Rules 1971 on the basis that there is good and sufficient cause to do so. More

ZIMBABWE CHEMICALS, PLASTICS AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION (ZCPAWU) VERSUS CHEMPLEX CORPORATION LIMITED AND G & W INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (PVT) LTD AND DOROWA MINERALS LIMITED AND ZIMBABWE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRIES LIMITED AND CHEMPLEX ANIMAL & PUBLIC HEALTH (2024-07-18)
MUREMBA J: The applicant is Zimbabwe Chemicals, Plastiscs and Allied Workers Union (ZCPAWU), a trade union registered in terms of the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01]. In terms of s 3 of its Constitution it is an independent body capable of suing and being sued on its own. It has the capacity to sue on behalf of its members. Members of the applicant are employees of the respondents. The first respondent is Chemplex Corporation Limited and it is the holding company of G & W Industrial Minerals (PVT) LTD; Dorowa Minerals Limited; Zimbabwe Phosphate Industries Limited; and Chemplex Animal & Public... More


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