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Documentary Evidence, Certification, Commissioning, Authentication and the Best Evidence Rule re: Digital Evidence

HH141-09 : OLIVER CHIBAGE vs KUDZAI SIBUSISO NDAWANA
Ruled By: MAKARAU JP

I.., turn to the first issue. It is to determine whether the fracture in the plaintiff's jaw was caused by the defendant. I do not have any direct evidence in answer to this issue. The x-ray that was taken of the tooth area after the defendant had referred the plaintiff to Professor Chidzonga was not produced ...
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HH164-10 : KENNETH PATRICK McCOSH vs PIONEER CORPORATION AFRICA LIMITED
Ruled By: KUDYA J

The plaintiff, a former financial director of the defendant company, filed summons on 8 July 2009 seeking payment of the capital sum of US$72,334 and interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the date when the amount fell due to the date of the issue of summons in ...
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HH172-10 : COTTON GINNERS ASSOCIATION vs SINO ZIMBABWE COTTON HOLDINGS (PVT) LTD and AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AUTHORITY
Ruled By: CHIWESHE JP

Pictures depicting this state of affairs have been filed as annexures “E8” – “E17”.
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HH173-10 : TAMBUDZAI MAFUSIRE vs LEWIS GREYLING and ELGREY INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD
Ruled By: CHATUKUTA J

The plaintiff testified that her motor vehicle was damaged beyond repair. She produced photographs of the vehicle before and after the accident.
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HH175-10 : CHIPO DERA vs CYNTHIA KAMBEZA
Ruled By: KUDYA J

The plaintiff alleged that she was satisfied beyond doubt that the defendant was engaged in a sexual relationship with her husband after she scrolled through his cell phone. The screen saver was the picture of the defendant. In the phone was another picture of a smiling defendant. She was shocked by yet a third picture. ...
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HH196-10 : MONDAY BOPOTO NYANDORO vs MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS and COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
Ruled By: PATEL J

He produced in evidence a photograph taken from a newspaper, The Zimbabwean (dated 11 to 17 November 2005), depicting a policeman running behind the plaintiff and brandishing a baton within striking distance [Exhibit 1].
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HH215-10 : BERNARD VENGAI vs BENJAMIN CHUMA and NEW DONNINGTON FARM (PRIVATE) LIMITED
Ruled By: KUDYA J

The plaintiff produced exhibit 3, the photograph showing the mangled sight of the Mercedes Benz after the accident. Exhibit 8, the photograph of the same vehicle, shows that the rear and the right side of the vehicle were not damaged. He produced photographs of the tractor…, and of the trailer…,. He photographed the road ...
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HH231-10 : AGRICULTURAL BANK OF ZIMBABWE LTD t/a AGRIBANK vs NICKSTATE INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD and RICHARD MAKWARA and PLAXEDES MAKWARA
Ruled By: GOWORA J

Pictures of the vehicles and motor-cycles together with specifications are provided in detail.
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HH117-11 : JOSEPH T. NJANIKE vs NEVERMIND KUFAKUNESU
Ruled By: BHUNU J

The parties exchanged text messages as will more fully appear from exhibits 3 and 4. Exhibit 4 is a transcript of various text messages the defendant sent to the plaintiff acknowledging his indebtedness to the plaintiff and promising to pay. It is beneficial to reproduce the text messages for clarity's sake and to bring ...
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HH31-15 : ISAAC CHAMBA vs MAYBE NGWARATI
Ruled By: CHITAKUNYE J

I am also of the view that the pictures are not conclusive, in themselves, as they do not depict when they were taken.
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CC21-19 : NELSON CHAMISA vs EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA and OTHERS
Ruled By: MALABA CJ, GWAUNZA DCJ, GARWE JCC, MAKARAU JCC, HLATSHWAYO JCC, PATEL JCC, BHUNU JCC, UCHENA JCC and MAKONI JCC

The applicant alleged that, at the close of voting at 19:00 hours on 30 July 2018, sample results in the form of completed V11 Forms were released. He said they were all over social media. According to the applicant, the results showed that he was well ahead of the first respondent in all the Provinces ...
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HH92-14 : MANGWIRO SIBANDA vs JANE HAPPIAH CHIKUMBA and ALTFIN INSURANCE COMPANY
Ruled By: CHIGUMBA J

The plaintiff asked the court if he was allowed to show it text messages exchanged between him and the first defendant at the material time. He applied to have a printout of his phone admitted into evidence. The printout was admitted as exhibit 1….,. The plaintiff collected his vehicle on 20 January 2013 and signed a release ...
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HH128-14 : EARTHMOVING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY PL vs ASSWELL GURUPIRA and JEAN GURUPIRA and SANDRA MUIR REGISTRAR OF DEEDS and THE DEPUTY SHERIFF
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

The plaintiff called seven (7) witnesses. The first was one Paradzayi Matambanadzo, a technician from Net One Cellular, a cellular network provider. His evidence was that without a special device, which Net One Cellular did not have, it was not possible for it to decrypt a short message service (sms) transmitted through its platform by ...
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HH05-03 : U-FREIGHT EUROMAR (PRIVATE) LIMITED vs EMMANUEL MUTEBUKA
Ruled By: MAKARAU J

The first factual dispute that I have to deal with is the identity of the person in Dubai who gave the money to the defendant. In the same breath, it is important to determine what the payment was for. In determining this issue, I take note of the fact that in his evidence in chief, John ...
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HHH190-16 : THE STATE vs FORTUNATE NSORO
Ruled By: CHITAPI J and ASSESSORS: SHENJE and BARWE

A lot of cases come before the courts in which a spouse will have invaded the private communications of another by going through messages and other communications on the other spouse's phone. This practice should be deprecated. It amounts to investigating or eavesdropping on one another.Usually, spouses who do this ...
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HB100-18 : ERASMUS DUBE vs ZIMBABWE ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
Ruled By: MAKONESE J

Where a defect or dangerous condition in the conductor or any appliance of a power company, causing injury to a person or persons, negligence does not per se give rise to liability as against the power company. Liability on the part of the power company turns on whether it knew, ...
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CC04-20 : INNOCENT GONESE and JESSIE MAJOME vs PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE and SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY and PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE and EMMERSON MNANGAGWA N.O. and PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE
Ruled By: MALABA CJ, GWAUNZA JCC, GARWE JCC, GOWORA JCC, HLATSHWAYO JCC, PATEL JCC, GUVAVA JCC, MAVANGIRA JCC and BHUNU JCC

The two applicants are Members of Parliament. They brought two separate applications in terms of section 167(2)(d) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.20) 2013 (“the Constitution”), as read with Rule 27 of the Constitutional Court Rules.They alleged failure by Parliament to fulfil the constitutional obligation to act in accordance ...
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CC09-20 : TUNGAMIRAI NYENGERA vs THE STATE
Ruled By: MALABA CJ

This is a chamber application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court (“the Court”) against a decision of the Supreme Court (“the court a quo”) in terms of Rule 32(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules S.I.61 of 2016 (“the Rules”), as read with section 167(5)(b) of the Constitution of ...
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HHB40-16 : TUNGAMIRAI NYENGERA vs THE STATE
Ruled By: MAKONESE J and MOYO J

The appellant in this matter was convicted of fraud as defined in section 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] by the Provincial Magistrate sitting in Bulawayo.He was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment with 12 months imprisonment suspended on the usual conditions.Dissatisfied with both conviction and ...
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HH675-21 : RITA MBATHA vs FARAI ZIZHOU and CONFEDERATION OF ZIMBABWE INDUSTRIES
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

IntroductionThe plaintiff claims a default judgment for sexual harassment. She is unrepresented.The matter appeared on the unopposed motion roll on 20 October 2021. It was one of several such appearances. In the past, the matter would be removed from the roll for one reason or other. The matter has had ...
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SC80-21 : ALLEN GESSEN vs PRISCILLA CHIGARIRO
Ruled By: MATHONSI JA

This is an application for condonation of the late noting of an appeal and the extension of time within which to appeal against a judgement of the High Court handed down on 1 October 2020.The applicant's initial appeal, filed timeously, was struck off the roll on 1 April 2021 for ...
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HHH220-16 : THE STATE vs GEORGE LOVELL
Ruled By: MUSAKWA J

The accused pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder. The incident took place in 2012.During the course of the trial, the State sought to produce extra-curial statements recorded from the accused. The defence challenged the admissibility of the statements.A trial on the separate issue ensued and this is the ...
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SC01-22 : FRANCIS BERE vs JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION and SIMBI MUBAKO and REKAYI MAPHOSA and TAKAWIRA NZOMBE and VIRGINIA MABHIZA and PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE and MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
Ruled By: GUVAVA JA, UCHENA JA and KUDYA AJA

This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (court a quo). The suspension from office of the appellant led to a flurry of court applications in the court a quo. This is just one of them in which the court a quo dismissed the appellant's application.The ...
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HMA54-19 : TANDIWE MHLANGA vs ZIMBABWE LAND COMMISSION and MINISTER OF LANDS, AGRICULTURE & RURAL RESETTLEMENT and MUNASHE SHOKO
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

This was an opposed application. The original and main dispute was between the applicant and the third respondent. But, in this particular application, the applicant sought a remedy against the first and second respondents.I guess the third respondent was cited merely as a nominal respondent being so much of an ...
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HHMA56-19 : THE STATE vs WONDERFUL MANJORO
Ruled By: MAWADZE J and ASSESSORS: CHADEMANA and MUSHUKU

The accused, who resides in Village 25, Chief Sengwe, Chiredzi, is facing two counts.In Count 1, the accused is facing the charge of murder as defined in section 47(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23], in that, on 18 June 2015, at Gonowani Village, Headman Mpapa, ...
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HH62-14 : JOHANNES MAKONYE vs KENAE RAMODIMOOSI and ENTREDEV PROPERTY GROUP and C.H. LUKAS
Ruled By: CHIGUMBA J

This is an application in terms of section 34 of the Model Law as set out in the Second Schedule to the Arbitration Act [Chapter 7:15] for the setting aside of an arbitral award dated 23 February 2012, granted by the third respondent.The second respondent was the applicant's estate agent.At ...
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